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2018-06-12
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Regarding the moral relativism vs moral objectivity issue, I can sense that your "I will praise you if you can find one example of something that is objectively moral or immoral" statement is, for the most part, rhetorical, but I find this discussion to be very interesting and thought I would contribute anyway. The moment you mentioned this topic a particular book and author to came my mind: The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris poses the argument for moral objectivity. Harris makes an argument for moral objectivity that I personally found to be compelling, if not at least worthy of considering. I am not claiming that his book is the perfect champion to put up against your challenge as finding something that is perfectly objectively moral or immoral, because within the book Harris has to make definitions, boundaries, caveats, limitations, and qualifiers. In other words, he did have to “draw lines in the sand” that were man-made and, hence, imperfect.
For Sam Harris or others who have read the book, please forgive my imperfect summary as it has been a little while since having read it, but there are two primary ideas that stuck out to me: 1. The primary boundary he uses to define morality is with regard to the wellbeing of beings; 2. Morality exists on a spectrum, i.e. shades of grey as you have said. A very simple, but memorable example for me, was something about, at some time in history, a group of people put cats in a sack of some kind, set it on fire, and threw or thrashed the sack about as a form of entertainment. While the people may have derived some pleasure from this activity, this was no doubt at the cost of the wellbeing of the cats. It would take some serious mental twisting to make the argument that the cats were somehow better off being tortured in this manner, than not being tortured. Using wellbeing as our metric, this act is a more immoral, rather than moral, treatment of cats.
Again, not a perfect answer to your challenge, but I recommend the book to anyone who finds this topic interesting. Thanks for taking the time to read my response! I really enjoy your channel and appreciate your content.
This made me buy a large Timmy Ho’s today.
Super greatful for your content. Thank you.
Emotional sensitivity and empathy is a strength, not a weakness. There is a reason why it occupies space in your pre-frontal lobe, it is one of the most important high level brain functions, along with logic, reasoning, and impulse control. It is the last part of the brain to fully develop, because of its significance. I feel that you are doing yourself a disservice by stifling your growth on behalf of your ego.
There are many examples of people who have suffered either damage or a lack of development of that part of the brain, they become sociopathic or narcissistic.
Coach Zahabis talk about ethics is gold!
Thank you for doing these videos. You must have a very busy schedule, but you are bringing value to many people for free. Just know your time is appreciated by all
The only thing you have that is completely yours is yourself. Nobody can do anything to you, without asking, if you do so that is wrong. So any physical action against another person is objectively wrong. My opinion ofc.
Love the videos thank you!!!
Crazy that you have to emphase the "no pro-communist", just because you share.
Last week I went to Montreal with the plan to train at Tristar, but broke my thumb grappling a few days before. Instead I just checked out the city and enjoyed Tim Hortons coffee.