Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 months agoThe thing about “Don’t do X, because we SHOULD do Y”
Is that nobody’s doing Y, and we’re nowhere close to getting there, so, until we are, we should support the X.
bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So then we should ignore Kant and give money to individuals because it’s better than nothing
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Or what if we support anyone who can help in the way that they are able and feel comfortable helping?
Trying to help, helps, even if they aren’t helping how you think they should.
bustrpoindextr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That was the point of my comment.
sab@kbin.social 4 months ago
Sure - if your alternative is doing nothing. It's not like he's saying giving money to beggars is immoral, it's just amoral.
jasory@programming.dev 3 months ago
Amoral means not morally relevant. Something that is morally neutral is not amoral, it’s morally neutral.
E.g it is morally neutral to pet a dog, it is amoral to like the colour blue.
Normally in moral philosophy one would avoid this confusion by classifying morally relevant actions/outcomes as “bad”,“neutral”, or “good”.