Samvega

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

It is an objective fact that a harmful act harms someone. That one observer likes that outcome does not alter the objective moral weight of the act. Harmful acts are objectively wrong, regardless of preference.

From a basic empirical observation of the effects of harm, one can arrive at a moral system based on objective reasoning. In this way, ideology can be avoided.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Two different people can disagree on whether a table is a table: this does not alter objective fact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The idea that objectivity requires a God figure would seem to me to be Berkeleyan idealism.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (14 children)

There is no inherent objective truth to these value questions.

I disagree. These values are based on objective observations.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm a simple person. I take people at their word, until it doesn't work, and then I hate them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I, too, take Trump at his word, which is how I know he's sexually interested in his own daughter.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (16 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

The dictionary definition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm open to trying a non-Capitalist system, but I'm pretty sure hierarchical bullshit will happen and the majority will end up being exploited.

Whether anyone else is open to it before humans extinguish themselves, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (20 children)

I'm not a fan of ideology.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can explore stuff without leaving your room.

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