[lit-ideas] Re: The meaning of life [correction]
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:17:38 -0800
I wrote
There's nothing contradictory about willing that only the fittest should
survive (in fact, as a statement about how organisms prosper and
decline, it looks more like a tautology, 'fittest' being defined in
terms of survival). If I were to will that only the fittest students
should be admitted to Okshevsky U., I'd be doing nothing prima facie
immoral or illogical. Yet if 'fittest' is cashed out in terms of grades
and test scores, there might be objections to my willing this, on the
grounds that some less advantaged students should be given a chance.
add: And such an objection would not turn on the universalizability of
my original maxim.
Robert Paul,
waiting for a bailout
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