[ExI] Fermi Paradox and Transcension

[Stefano Vaj]

On 9 September 2012 23:17, Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Humans know what constitutes ethical behavior, they just refuse to
> practice it, and the higher up in the power hierarchy, the more
> lawless they become.
>

I cannot disagree more.

Let us distinguish morality, moral and moral philosophy.

As to the first, we are all more or less in breach of our own principles,
what else is new?

But this should not in least hide the fact that ethics (ie, moral systems)
are not about doing the right thing, but about identifying it in the first
place.

And, even though different moral philosophies may (sometimes) converge into
roughly equivalent solutions, what makes moral systems interesting, and
above all *plural* and *diverse*, is exactly the fact that they give
radically different answers to moral dilemmas.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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