I think the world is moral as meaning : “sometimes, morality is applicable”. Some things are good (though perhaps questionably so) and some are evil (idem). Perhaps not all things are categorizable into good evil categories (for example, ice cream is delivious), and these categories might shift over time, space and culture (for example, slavery is bad) but there is some sort of measure. Most people agree that murder is evil. When saying “Murder is evil.” and trying to dereference my pointers, I come up with something like “I should not murder.” “Someone should not murder.” “Murder is something that shouldn’t be.” “Murder is something I should ensure does not happen.” “Murder is something I don’t want to know about.” I try to keep all my pointers towards testable possibilities. None of these correspond to the essence of evil as I feel it.
One could argue in this case that my concept of morality is pointless/flawed but I have trouble getting to terms with that.
I think the world is moral as meaning : “sometimes, morality is applicable”. Some things are good (though perhaps questionably so) and some are evil (idem). Perhaps not all things are categorizable into good evil categories (for example, ice cream is delivious), and these categories might shift over time, space and culture (for example, slavery is bad) but there is some sort of measure.
Most people agree that murder is evil. When saying “Murder is evil.” and trying to dereference my pointers, I come up with something like “I should not murder.” “Someone should not murder.” “Murder is something that shouldn’t be.” “Murder is something I should ensure does not happen.” “Murder is something I don’t want to know about.”
I try to keep all my pointers towards testable possibilities. None of these correspond to the essence of evil as I feel it.
One could argue in this case that my concept of morality is pointless/flawed but I have trouble getting to terms with that.