Ethics in four words
Treat moral agents justly.
Disagreements in ethics are either disagreements over the terms, or consequences of incorrect ethical theories.
Disagreements in ethics are either disagreements over the terms, or consequences of incorrect ethical theories.
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Liberty By Minimizing Injustice.
They correctly frame the debate:
Is aborting a fetus treating a moral agent injustly? Is the proscription of abortion treating the mom unjustly?
To answer, you must answer:
Are fetuses moral agents? To the same degree as the mom? If so, their interests are in conflict. How do we justly resolve this conflict?
Is killing a felon treating a moral agent unjustly?
To answer, you must answer:
Does commiting terrible crimes reduce or eliminate moral agency? Is it ever just to take the life of a moral agent? How can capitol punishment ever be worth the injustice of killing the innocent?
You've achieved brevity at the expense of sense.
I am the only moral agent. Treating myself justly involves doing whatever I want.
- act with being concerned (ok, that sounds a bit awkward); act with concern, yo!
- do tha' right thing
- do not do wrong; hey, do no harm (is that cheating?)
- get your conscience together (hmm maybe not so good)
Trite.
Quoting hypericin
Yours, not mine
:wink:
Mine is succinct; yours is trite; his is vapid.
Apologise to Bernard Woolley.
1.Think consequences before actions
2. Value, respect people's needs
3. Examine conscience carefully always
4 Reasoned choice preventing suffering
I am getting a bit carried away with trying to define ethics in 4 words!
Do what God says.
Eat all rich people.
End suffering, destroy life.
Force happiness on all.
And I got a word to spare. :grin:
1. Prudentia
2. Iustitia
3. Fortitudo
4. Temperantia
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