Even now ethics in different parts of the world, and even between political parties, are different. You should know that more than most, having lived in two systems.
There’s a ridiculous amount of similarity on anything major, though. If we pick ethics of first man on the moon, or first man to orbit the earth, it’s pretty same.
If it turns out that most space-faring civilizations have similar ethics, that would be good for us. But then also there would be a difference between “most widespread code of ethics” and “objectively correct code of ethics for any agent anywhere”. Most common != correct.
Yes, and most common math is not guaranteed to be correct (not even in the sense of not being self contradictory). Yet, that’s no argument in favour of math equivalent of moral relativism. (Which, if such a silly thing existed, would look something like 2*2=4 is a social convention! it could have been 5!) .
edit: also, a cross over from other thread: It’s obvious that nukes are an ethical filter, i.e. some ethics are far better at living through that than others. Then there will be biotech and other actual hazards, and boys screaming wolf for candy (with and without awareness of why), and so on.
There’s a ridiculous amount of similarity on anything major, though. If we pick ethics of first man on the moon, or first man to orbit the earth, it’s pretty same.
Yes, and most common math is not guaranteed to be correct (not even in the sense of not being self contradictory). Yet, that’s no argument in favour of math equivalent of moral relativism. (Which, if such a silly thing existed, would look something like 2*2=4 is a social convention! it could have been 5!) .
edit: also, a cross over from other thread: It’s obvious that nukes are an ethical filter, i.e. some ethics are far better at living through that than others. Then there will be biotech and other actual hazards, and boys screaming wolf for candy (with and without awareness of why), and so on.