Comment on Philosophy meme
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months agoWhat is worse, blowing someone up on a battlefield or capturing them and sacrificing them later? I’d say the latter because the death is relatively quick and painless and included a soporific to calm the victim down. The latter was what the Aztecs did. Their wars were for capturing prisoners, not killing enemies. I don’t know… that sounds like their sacrifices are more moral than blowing someone’s legs off and letting them bleed out. I’d call the latter a lot more moral than the former. Because less suffering is good, right?
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 11 months ago
This is a very superficial view on the matter. You would have to consider all factors.
Which practices lead to more trauma? To more future victims? What are the long-term consequences for the future? Does one decision lead to more suffering in humans 3000 years in the future for some reason? Etc. Objectively, one way is the better one. We just don’t know which one it is.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wait, now we don’t know what is objectively morally true?
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 11 months ago
I would say we can’t in most cases know exactly or even approximately what is the objectively morally better decision. But that doesn’t make it less objective. It just makes it hard or perhaps even impossible to know.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How can you know it’s objective if it’s impossible to know what is morally better?