[ExI] Morality function, self-correcting moral systems?

[Stefano Vaj]

On 13 December 2011 22:43, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> Also, I have a hypothesis that all human based organisations (societies) I
> know of are immoral.
>
> I think this is a pretty safe assumption that few ethicists would deny.
>

I probably do not qualify as an "ethicist", but you are IMHO way too
optimistic about that... :-)

Societies are almost invariably highly moral (and moralistic), they have
very complicate and evolving sets of social rules, and they invariably do
their best to rewards and enforce compliance, as well as to repress and
marginalise individual and collective deviancy.

As to the latter, either it is the feat of people who basically share the
same values, and simply infringe them but would not dream for a moment of
putting them seriously into discussion; or is the feat of people adhering
to a competing moral system, and in such event they usually partake in a
group where internal morality, even though of a kind competing with the
dominant version, is even more central to their lives than it may be the
case for their other fellow citizens.

True "immoralism" is pretty rare occurrence, and I can hardly see how it
could apply to a society as such...

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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