Sewing-Machine says: Why not permit the killing of babies not your own, for the same reason?
Konkvistador says: Because its illegal to kill other people’s pets or destroy their property? Duh.
Jayson_Virissimo says: So, premeditated killing of someone else’s child should be criminal damage rather than murder?
And then we’re back to the bit I was responding to. But we all seem to be talking about what should be the case, where we want to end up. The reasoning we can apply at the moment seems the relevant thing to that. If weirdtopia doesn’t look like a place our reasoning would work, if we wouldn’t want to live there.… Well, so much the worse for weirdtopia.
A weirdtopia. The premises that lead to the reasoning and conclusions here are only premises I could consider reasoning from from the perspective of a weird alternate reality. I certainly don’t endorse anything we’re talking about here myself but do suggest that they are incompatible with the nice sounding “Whatever you give me it’s still going to work out as a loss” kind of moral expressions you mention—at least to the extent that they are embedded in the law.
Where did we start talking about weirdtopia?
And then we’re back to the bit I was responding to. But we all seem to be talking about what should be the case, where we want to end up. The reasoning we can apply at the moment seems the relevant thing to that. If weirdtopia doesn’t look like a place our reasoning would work, if we wouldn’t want to live there.… Well, so much the worse for weirdtopia.
A weirdtopia. The premises that lead to the reasoning and conclusions here are only premises I could consider reasoning from from the perspective of a weird alternate reality. I certainly don’t endorse anything we’re talking about here myself but do suggest that they are incompatible with the nice sounding “Whatever you give me it’s still going to work out as a loss” kind of moral expressions you mention—at least to the extent that they are embedded in the law.