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Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun January 08, 2023 5:32 am
by spike
BurtReynolds wrote:Kantian ethics fails again

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Your mom’s hot?

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun January 08, 2023 1:45 pm
by JuanHamm
I just think "What would Captain America do?" and do that.

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun January 08, 2023 2:01 pm
by BurtReynolds
JuanHamm wrote:I just think "What would Captain America do?" and do that.
Divine command

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun January 08, 2023 4:18 pm
by elliseamos
I think that's referred to as Vaughtism.

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun January 08, 2023 4:27 pm
by BurtReynolds
literally just this
BurtReynolds wrote:

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun January 08, 2023 4:52 pm
by elliseamos
I'd be more inclined to replace "recognizing" with "agreeing".

All corners of society have heros, the fictional ones are those that deliberately fall in the middle of the venn diagram.

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun January 08, 2023 4:56 pm
by BurtReynolds
elliseamos wrote:I'd be more inclined to replace "recognizing" with "agreeing".

All corners of society have heros, the fictional ones are those that deliberately fall in the middle of the venn diagram.
Yes, which should be recognized as a horrible, dystopian situation that wasn't previously the case.

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun January 08, 2023 7:41 pm
by elliseamos
BurtReynolds wrote:
elliseamos wrote:I'd be more inclined to replace "recognizing" with "agreeing".

All corners of society have heros, the fictional ones are those that deliberately fall in the middle of the venn diagram.
Yes, which should be recognized as a horrible, dystopian situation that wasn't previously the case.
Being able to predict where a hurricane is heading wasn't previously the case, Burt. People change.

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Tue January 10, 2023 6:34 pm
by BurtReynolds

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 3:39 pm
by BurtReynolds
Yesterday I received a package that belonged to someone else from Amazon, and spent 30 minutes trying to get them to do something about it. They said they would take care of it, but I never even gave them the package info or address or anything. So there is some poor bastard out in the world with an itchy back and no ethernet.

They said I could keep it or donate it or something. It was a telescoping back scratcher and a ethernet cable.

As an egoist who believes I should only act in my own self interest, I would normally keep it and thus increase my power over the world, but I can't think of any use for this shit. The back scratcher doesn't even work well. So I threw it in the trash. What a waste.

What would you do in this situation?

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 5:39 pm
by JuanHamm
How far away does the intended recipient live?

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 5:56 pm
by The Argonaut
Your reveal of what the items in the package were after talking about the problems the poor bastard would have without them was a compelling stylistic choice.

Good ethics, Burt

Re: What moral system do you subscribe to?

Posted: Sun February 19, 2023 6:11 pm
by BurtReynolds
Or an editing mistake.