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An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025 (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

My morality is built on furtherment of mankind technologically, with weights assigned to satisfaction and an aversion to harm. Here are some examples on how to apply this logically and without any emotion, empathy included:

  • It's kind of like not really believing in human rights but supporting them anyways because the people who oppose human rights are destructive and inefficient.
  • Humans are animals. We must act according to our basic wants and needs in a way that maximizes our satisfaction, or else we are acting against our own nature. However, we must do this in a way that causes no harm, or we have failed as a collective species.
  • Diversity is a must because exclusivity is a system which consistently fails every time is has ever been tested.
  • The death penalty is taboo not because life is sacred but because one person deciding the importance of another's life is intellectually bankrupt and only leads to a spiral of violence.
  • All life is meaningless, full stop, which gives us the right to assign whatever meaning we like, and having more technology, with equal control over it by each individual person, gives us the collective power to make more choices.

I will not be taking any questions, meatbags

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So, empathy like I said.

Why do you value the technological advancement of the human race? How do you determine what is advancement, and what is regression?

Why place emphasis on satisfaction and aversion to harm? How do you determine the relative levels of satisfaction and harm except through empathy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

I apologize for breaking your comment down into quotes.

So, empathy like I said.

Incorrect, it can be entirely selfish and rational, because helping others also helps you.

Why do you value the technological advancement of the human race? How do you determine what is advancement, and what is regression?

I thought I explained that pretty well. Life has the meaning we choose, technology gives more choices.

Why place emphasis on satisfaction and aversion to harm? How do you determine the relative levels of satisfaction and harm except through empathy?

I also explained that. It's the most efficient method. It is the time-proven way to accomplish the goal of furtherment of technology. All methods which fail this simple test inevitably fail on a societal level. How we measure it is by actually measuring it via communication. Humanity has developed means of quantifying happiness and wellbeing, of assessing the wants and needs of individuals and society as a whole.

I feel like I'm just repeating myself.