Julie and Mark would have to be good at keeping their experiment secret. If they had a good experience together, having not harmed each other nor themselves, that golden rule, the trust of experience and emotions, could anyone else know the purity in their hearts? The sexuality of the question is interesting to me. When we are with a lover in the usual ways, are we really alone with them? It can take many years of trust to melt into love, have a change of consciousness, of unity. The incest question makes me think of these siblings, they could be each others favorite people, they might never know a truly comfortable love-making without each other. I believe if that were so, and they found a transcendent love, they have done better than maintain morality, but defeated morality.
A psychiatric patient can be asked if they have suicidal or homicidal urges, ideas of harming in general, become shredded between the options of hospitalization and facing these horrors alone, the moral tragedy being that a nurse or doctor could be reprimanded for allowing that person to cry on their shoulder.
I support the premise of this article, and my only conclusion is that we can have ‘golden rule moments’. Sometimes we have an option that is morally pure and no one can do the math to prove it, nor repeat it in a lab.
I believe we can get better at this. In a Nick Bostrom TED talk, he really convinced me that life could be ecstatic beyond imagination. Ethics could be easier. There’s so much negativity to cope with now.
Julie and Mark would have to be good at keeping their experiment secret. If they had a good experience together, having not harmed each other nor themselves, that golden rule, the trust of experience and emotions, could anyone else know the purity in their hearts? The sexuality of the question is interesting to me. When we are with a lover in the usual ways, are we really alone with them? It can take many years of trust to melt into love, have a change of consciousness, of unity. The incest question makes me think of these siblings, they could be each others favorite people, they might never know a truly comfortable love-making without each other. I believe if that were so, and they found a transcendent love, they have done better than maintain morality, but defeated morality.
A psychiatric patient can be asked if they have suicidal or homicidal urges, ideas of harming in general, become shredded between the options of hospitalization and facing these horrors alone, the moral tragedy being that a nurse or doctor could be reprimanded for allowing that person to cry on their shoulder.
I support the premise of this article, and my only conclusion is that we can have ‘golden rule moments’. Sometimes we have an option that is morally pure and no one can do the math to prove it, nor repeat it in a lab.
I believe we can get better at this. In a Nick Bostrom TED talk, he really convinced me that life could be ecstatic beyond imagination. Ethics could be easier. There’s so much negativity to cope with now.