I found this post annoying for several reasons that I don’t have time to fully explain, but the simplest way of articulating my annoyance is just to say that it should have been entitled something like “The most important unsolved problems in Singerian ethics”.
Is it ethical to associate with government employees?
Obviously these questions all presuppose a strongly libertarian ethical framework, which is probably annoying to non-libertarians. One can easily imagine a set of questions that presuppose a Christian ethical framework (“is it ethical to associate with adulterers?”), which non-Christians would find annoying. The questions in the top post presuppose a sort of liberal/Singerian ethical framework, which people who don’t subscribe to that framework are justified (I think) in being annoyed by.
I found this post annoying for several reasons that I don’t have time to fully explain, but the simplest way of articulating my annoyance is just to say that it should have been entitled something like “The most important unsolved problems in Singerian ethics”.
Do you know of some other problems in ethics, of whatever kind, that should be on a list?
Is it ethical to pay taxes?
Is it ethical to send your children to school?
Is it ethical to associate with government employees?
Obviously these questions all presuppose a strongly libertarian ethical framework, which is probably annoying to non-libertarians. One can easily imagine a set of questions that presuppose a Christian ethical framework (“is it ethical to associate with adulterers?”), which non-Christians would find annoying. The questions in the top post presuppose a sort of liberal/Singerian ethical framework, which people who don’t subscribe to that framework are justified (I think) in being annoyed by.
Is it unethical to pose questions that some people find intriguting and interesting, but that other people find annoying?