Both racism and sexism are an unfair and inequal preference for a specific group, typically the one the racist or sexist is a member of.
A racist or sexist may or may not dispute the unequal bit, I’m pretty sure they would dispute the unfair bit. Because duh, ze dosen’t consider it unfair. I’m not too sure what you mean by fair, can we taboo it or at least define it?
Also would you say there exist fair and equal preferences for a specific group that one belongs to? Note, I’m not asking you about racism or sexism specifically, but for any group (which I assume are all based on a characteristic the people in it share, be it a mole under their right eye, a love for a particular kind of music or a piece of paper saying “citizen”).
I was interested in if you also were fine with others making other calls about what interests they would give inequal weight to.
Sure why not, they should think about this stuff and come up with their own answers. Its not like there is an “objectively right morality” function floating around and I do think human values differ. I couldn’t honestly say I wouldn’t be too biased when trying to make a “fixed” version of someone’s morality, I think I would probably just end up with a custom tailored batch of rationalizations that would increment their morality towards my own, no matter what my intentions.
Though obviously if they come up with a different value system than my own, our goals may no longer be complimentary and we may indeed become enemies. But we may be enemies even if we have identical values, for example valuing survival in itself can easily pit you against other entities valuing the same, same goes for pure selfishness. Indeed sometimes fruitful cooperation is possible precisely because we have different values.
It isn’t like Omega ever told us that all humanity really does have coherent complimentary goals or that we are supposed to. Even if that’s what we are “supposed” to do, why bother?
A racist or sexist may or may not dispute the unequal bit, I’m pretty sure they would dispute the unfair bit. Because duh, ze dosen’t consider it unfair. I’m not too sure what you mean by fair, can we taboo it or at least define it?
Also would you say there exist fair and equal preferences for a specific group that one belongs to? Note, I’m not asking you about racism or sexism specifically, but for any group (which I assume are all based on a characteristic the people in it share, be it a mole under their right eye, a love for a particular kind of music or a piece of paper saying “citizen”).
Sure why not, they should think about this stuff and come up with their own answers. Its not like there is an “objectively right morality” function floating around and I do think human values differ. I couldn’t honestly say I wouldn’t be too biased when trying to make a “fixed” version of someone’s morality, I think I would probably just end up with a custom tailored batch of rationalizations that would increment their morality towards my own, no matter what my intentions.
Though obviously if they come up with a different value system than my own, our goals may no longer be complimentary and we may indeed become enemies. But we may be enemies even if we have identical values, for example valuing survival in itself can easily pit you against other entities valuing the same, same goes for pure selfishness. Indeed sometimes fruitful cooperation is possible precisely because we have different values.
It isn’t like Omega ever told us that all humanity really does have coherent complimentary goals or that we are supposed to. Even if that’s what we are “supposed” to do, why bother?