I swear... People have dictionnaries fetishes here.. How many timedo I need to repeat that knowledge can't be found in a freaking dictionnary ?? Omfg !
Ethics and morals are two very different things:
- Morals is set to be abolute principles based on subjectivity.
- Ethics is relativistic, it takes context into consideration.
I'm talking here about ethic. Try to keep up.
Yeah, I wonder why people keep using the dictionary against you, maybe it has to do with you making irrelevant distinctions that do nothing but waste fucking time. The word
ethics cannot be defined without referencing morals
This is a good argument. But there is a catch. In the case of a featus, there is another person involved and thus, to the principle of preventing a possible force of good we need to add the context of the individual who is pregnant and might suffer because of the arrival of the baby, in physical terms, in financial terms, in relationships, in mental terms etc. And in the case of a feotus, I consider that the care a living being must take priority over a potential one.
Fetuses are living. If you define their having humanity as being a part of the species, they are a part of humanity from conception
This is because fetuses are a fetus of the
human type, as opposed to being an elephant fetus, or a dog fetus. Hence we would call a fetus created from a human as a human-fetus, because it is a human
In this case, there is noone involved and so said person can be a potential for good and but be keepen alive at all cost.
For people on their death bed, aside from public services in some cases, noone is involved too. And so, we can prevent a person from dying because there is a possibility of potential force for good. Even an old woman on her death bed can change the world.
Again, the reasonning is practical and ethical. And frankly, really simple. Now if you want to give me other example to challenge this vision, go ahead, I actually like to discuss with that types of argumentation. It feels like we are moving toward something.
What potential does a fetus have for good that an old woman doesn't have? Both are human as I have just demonstrated.
You could argue a fetus innately has
more potential good left as it has more of it's life ahead of it, but that is a seperate argument really
Radical descision yes. Not radical change. For example, an incel rapist could choose, one day, to protect a woman. It would be a radical descision depending on his worldview. But would it create radical change ?
An rapist choosing to protect a woman rather than raping her is a radical change, a radical change of his will towards good rather than evil.
It is a radical change
because it is a radical decision; the decision is the cause for the change. What you are finding with all of these arguments and what I have noticed in general is your inability to parse proper distinctions between things. A decision is the
cause of change in this context
- You wake up attached to a chair. You are close to a switch of two train track
- There is the person you love the most attached on the main tracks in front of you.
- A train is coming and it will run over your loved one
- You can only move your hand to a button
- If press it, the button actionnate the switch and you know the train will be deviated toward a safe track.
- You get 50$ if you don't press the button
Do you think you will choose not to press the button ?
How does this hypothetical prove we don't have free will? In this hypothetical I have all the power to choose not to press the button if I didn't want to.
If I'm a liberal and I become a conservatist, it will be a normal change. If I'm a conservatist far rightist and I suddenly become progressive, it will be a radical change. But If I'm a fascist and I suddenly turn into a radical anti-colonial and anti-racist leftist, then it would not be radical, it would be miraculous and extrem. Such a change would require the rewiring of my entire vision of the world.
Not really sure what your point is lmao. Radical "change" in the sense of changing my ideology can happen instantly, I could instantly go from a fascist to a radical leftist in one sitting if I thought about it and decided to.
You should really give up this argument. It's an uphill battle and you are going in circles finding contradictions which do not really exist.
For an extrem change to happen, Jack would need tobe able to make this choice at the beginning of the first movies. And as we know it, it was not possible since Jack was very different at the beginning of the first movie. In fact a lot of his beliefs were challenged during this trilogy (hence why Jack is a fan favorite). There is a continuity. For one change to happen, another had to happen before that. Realization after realization, Jack became a more respectable person and a friend.
An extreme change in this context is just, at the end of the day, reducible to his will choosing good rather than evil.
So long as the will is properly informed by the intellect, it will move towards good/evil, just as a fireplace will burn if given wood.
Jack took 3 movies to have proper realizations (fireplace given wood) , so it took 3 movies for him to choose good (fireplace burning).
But, he could have chosen good immediately if given immediate understanding, just as a fireplace can instantly burn brightly if given lots of wood all at once rather than little twigs over a span of days.
So to, a criminal can make instant radical change if given instant radical understanding; instant repentance if he instantly is told & realizes his crimes warrant execution
A better discussion to have is how
likely a criminal will instantly desire good after being threatened, because it is fundamentally possible as per the nature of the intellect & the will.
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I think it’s quite concerning how trump supporters are mad at the trump administration for not being as racist as they wanted them to be
This just in: citizens disagree with Trump planning to import millions from the third-world into the country
but I would assume they’d probably hire indian mods to moderate content coming from India
Stop noticing.