I don’t see this as anything to do with moral theory. It’s pretty much general currency what constitutes being an asshole. I’ve seen it set out in umpteen comment policies on blogs, which often explicitly summarise it as “don’t be an asshole”, or even “don’t be an asshole—but you knew that already”.
I don’t see this as anything to do with moral theory.
I don’t understand what you mean here. Is your concept of moral theory only something for thought experiments involving Omega but to abstract to apply to day-to-day life?
No. I mean it in the same sense that we do not need to have a discussion of moral theory in order to agree on what actions we are talking about, when we talk about theft. We don’t even need to have a discussion of moral theory to agree that we’d rather people didn’t behave that way.
And I was hoping to extract your moral theory from you.
I don’t see this as anything to do with moral theory. It’s pretty much general currency what constitutes being an asshole. I’ve seen it set out in umpteen comment policies on blogs, which often explicitly summarise it as “don’t be an asshole”, or even “don’t be an asshole—but you knew that already”.
I don’t understand what you mean here. Is your concept of moral theory only something for thought experiments involving Omega but to abstract to apply to day-to-day life?
No. I mean it in the same sense that we do not need to have a discussion of moral theory in order to agree on what actions we are talking about, when we talk about theft. We don’t even need to have a discussion of moral theory to agree that we’d rather people didn’t behave that way.