Technically you are correct, so you can read my above argument as figuratively “accurate to one decimal place”. The important thing is that there’s nothing mysterious going on here in a linguistic or metaethical sense.
I partly agree, but a tradition that developed under certain conditions isn’t necessarily optimal under different conditions (e.g. much better technology and medicine, less need for manual labour, fewer stupid people (at least for now), etc.).
Otherwise, we’d be even better off just executing our evolved adaptations, which had even more time to develop.
Technically you are correct, so you can read my above argument as figuratively “accurate to one decimal place”. The important thing is that there’s nothing mysterious going on here in a linguistic or metaethical sense.
But in a practical sense these things can’t be computed from first principals, so it is necessary to rely on tradition at least to some extent.
I partly agree, but a tradition that developed under certain conditions isn’t necessarily optimal under different conditions (e.g. much better technology and medicine, less need for manual labour, fewer stupid people (at least for now), etc.).
Otherwise, we’d be even better off just executing our evolved adaptations, which had even more time to develop.