mtraven,
You’re ignoring concepts like inquiring empirically whether situationally employed torture can reduce net torture in the world. I brought it up in the torture thread and I think every commenter ignored the concept. Also, I’m unconvinced that the desire to label indivuduals as “good” and “evil” comes from a good faith attempt to accurately model reality, or even optimally solve existential challenges we face. It seems to come more from a desire to use morality to create status heirarchies, although in some cases it could also create representational heirarchies privileging both the people framed as “good” and as “evil”, to the detriment of those that embody neither archetypes.
I’m surprised no one else in engaging me on these ideas of moral and representational heirarchies as ends in and of themselves.
mtraven, You’re ignoring concepts like inquiring empirically whether situationally employed torture can reduce net torture in the world. I brought it up in the torture thread and I think every commenter ignored the concept. Also, I’m unconvinced that the desire to label indivuduals as “good” and “evil” comes from a good faith attempt to accurately model reality, or even optimally solve existential challenges we face. It seems to come more from a desire to use morality to create status heirarchies, although in some cases it could also create representational heirarchies privileging both the people framed as “good” and as “evil”, to the detriment of those that embody neither archetypes.
I’m surprised no one else in engaging me on these ideas of moral and representational heirarchies as ends in and of themselves.