Comment on Philosophy meme
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 year agoThis is a very superficial view on the matter. You would have to consider all factors.
Which practices lead to more trauma? To more future victims? What are the long-term consequences for the future? Does one decision lead to more suffering in humans 3000 years in the future for some reason? Etc. Objectively, one way is the better one. We just don’t know which one it is.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait, now we don’t know what is objectively morally true?
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 year ago
I would say we can’t in most cases know exactly or even approximately what is the objectively morally better decision. But that doesn’t make it less objective. It just makes it hard or perhaps even impossible to know.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How can you know it’s objective if it’s impossible to know what is morally better?
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 year ago
Because for something to be considered objective the only necessary condition is that how something is lies entirely with the object itself and not with the person(s) looking at it. Whether or not we can measure it in actuality doesn’t matter for that definition.
Consider you could wire every existing person up to some kind of device that measures their physical and psychological pain and gives out a number, it doesn’t matter who looks at it, it would obviously always be the same number.