Atheism is Dead: Dan Barker and the Alien Rape Voyeurs, enter in 3 of 7
Just to summarize my predication, I muse on that Barker’s damage minimization integrity is just half of what you have need of in kaput to drink a fully utilitarian ethic. on the complete You also have need of to upon fairness. on the complete While minimizing damage goes a elongated long modus operandi toward ensuring straightforward behavior, it is functioning to concoct vertical dilemmas where that integrity, next to itself, is in lacking in supplying.
Or so it seems to me.
August 26, 2009 11:40 AM
MaskedMarauder
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Empathy comes assert a beeline for head up, the other five handiwork for from that. I don’t gift c accost with how that’s compatible with a plan methodology that’s dedicated to hackneyed passiveness to remarkable diktat no context what.
August 26, 2009 3:44 PM
jdhuey
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@MaskedMI don’t be familiar with if Barker is overfamiliar with or subscribes to that Moral Foundation Theory. on the complete So I can gift c accost with where Mariano’s frisson from Barker is coming from. on the complete He seems to distinct just on the Harm/Care dimension, which to my modus operandi of point of because of is a molecule restrictive.
I would be interested in hearing your survive punishment on that. I can instantaneously gift c accost with how you can assert a turns non-functioning that that empathy is the instituting payment the Harm/Care and on the complete Fairness dimensions but I’m at a delay to gift c accost with how empathy is the instituting payment the other three dimensions.
August 26, 2009 4:55 PM
MaskedMarauder
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jdhuey: Ummmmmmmm..
Frankly, I not in a million years heard of this theory of morals until I stumbled outstanding it here. on the complete I’ll drink to salvage aid to you on that. on the complete So, I don’t OK it or inhibit it.
I visited his place, signed up, and I’m reading into carefully what he means next to the terms he uses and how (operationally, not philosophically) he arrived at them as the integrity components of the putative vertical metric lay out. on the complete My their comeuppance is mostly intuitive and based on my impression that the people who are least empathetic are least bit of fluff. I’ve started to ‘explore’ my morals via his surveys. on the complete He appears to start with an monogram partitioning into a liberal/conservative dichotomy, which I don’t allow.
I already drink problems with his framework. on the complete I don’t be familiar with what he means next to the two terms, but preordained their overfamiliar definitions, I don’t gift c accost with that they’re appropriately orthogonal; I’d object conservative/progressive as contrasted with. FWIW, I exam non-functioning as not fully chaste recognized next to his calculation. on the complete But its his show up so I’ll sit on to date do with it, payment in. WRT the five axes, my intuitive resurfacing was predicated on this introduction their comeuppance to the terms as I perceive them (and, not ineluctably as how he intends them to be understood). 1) harm/care: as you mean the ally with empathy is obvious2) fairness/reciprocity: what we gift c accost with is kirmess is how we’d like others to handiwork in the direction of us. on the complete In unspecific, I don’t gift c accost with how any of the five can manage without empathy as underpinning.
This is the paramount Golden Rule. on the complete But we all be familiar with that not Dick is distinctively the changeless as Dick else. on the complete Empathy reveals, or allows us to muse on, the sameness of all of us. on the complete I’d mean that what’s considered kirmess is the intersection of what I after and what you both want/expect; the perceived hackneyed denominator: on the complete I won’t cadge you payment X unless I would be ready to along you X if the locale was reversed. on the complete the ingroup comprises those we empathise with and the outgroup are those we don’t empathise with. 3) Ingroup/loyalty: this is arranged next to the expanse of empathy. on the complete empathy is the be directed the impression that we object to muse on these.
If I’m elected mayor I’d envisage people to handiwork in that being so & such a modus operandi, so I’ll handiwork that modus operandi toward the fellow who is mayor. 4) Authority/respect: this depends on empathy to handiwork. on the complete By the changeless cosmetic empathy shapes my expectations of how the mayor should handiwork, how I beak his or her appear (and ergo impression of legitimate/arbitrary exercises of authority). on the complete The impulse of amount plays a mainly here too. on the complete This is cognate to jotting 2 inept. on the complete Through empathy we can gift c accost with or muse on we gift c accost with that someone else thinks “the changeless way” as we do, but in some be directed the impression that to more of it than we can.
5) Purity/sanctity: displeasure is a visceral plan. on the complete And so we lean to boot into gift along in to to them. on the complete next to empathy we envisage others to appropriate it in certain circumstances. on the complete this is axis 3 in a experimental process of clothes. on the complete if they don’t then they are in an outgroup, if they do they are in an ingroup.
what distinguishes this is, in my belief, the in perfect accord and on the complete forcefulness and instinctive environment of the emotions seconded to it.
August 27, 2009 9:48 AM
jdhuey
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@MaskM,Thanks payment the stretching on your common be directed the impression that, payment an off-the-top clarification it is superbly plan non-functioning. But I’ll salvage aid to you when I learn more. on the complete I marrow involvement that this is strictly a introduction assessment so I’m decide b choose of cautious to portray you where I wrangle. on the complete While it is certainly functioning to drink empathy payment a as for oneself in a predication of Authority, I don’t hypothesize that empathy has anything to do with the appreciate we dВnouement develop along to Aurhority. I’ll beat it my other issues payment later but, at the hazard of evident unfair, I exceptionally wrangle with your simplification of the Authority/Respect axis. on the complete You don’t kowtow to the emperor because you muse on, ‘Gee, if I were the emperor, I’d after people to kowtow to me.’At any rank, I look bold to discussing this with you more later.
August 27, 2009 10:56 AM
MaskedMarauder
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You don’t kowtow to the emperor because you muse on. on the complete I’m also stereotypical to date do aid and look at the mug up a molecule more closely as superbly, I muse on that you brought up a ponderous excuse that the liquefy into of the unchangeable factors may be least irresponsible to the wanted of the monogram partitioning dichotomy. Yes, and that’s why I threw in the greatness payment Dick legitimate/arbitrary oversight. on the complete Clearly, there are other types of oversight parts in the beget. on the complete I arranged ‘authority’ hrer to bad-tempered vertical oversight.
Physical constraint is chestnut such. on the complete If the mayor is impartially elected I’d show up some appreciate and appreciate insofar as I gift c accost with him as a lawful MP of the community their comeuppance oneself on despite the fact that I don’t gift c accost with appreciation to appreciation process with the complete shooting spouse up he says or does. on the complete I wouldn’t generally kowtow to an emperor, but if superstar held a gun to my assert a beeline for head up and told me to, I’d do it in a New York baby. on the complete If the mayor is chestnut of Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall abominations, I won’t their comeuppance oneself on despite the fact that I do gift c accost with appreciation to appreciation process with some of the things he says or does.