[lit-ideas] Re: gashlycrumb tinies
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- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:08:26 EDT
<<Dollars negate the reality of others. >>
First thing you've said in a while that I agree with. That does worry me a
bit ....
Julie Krueger
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> Andy: .... Maybe the potential for moral law within, a vastly
> unrealized potential indulged in by about 1% of the population.
>
> Eric: Is this really true? Most non-sociopaths in the population
> make value judgments of some kind or other. Many of these judgments
> require some inner moral sense of some kind.
A.A. Most non-sociopaths (non-sociopaths) pay their taxes because they'll
go to jail if they're caught. They pay for groceries because there are
store detectives and people checking receipts in Walmart and sensors in
other stores. Likewise they restrain themselves from assault and battery,
writing bad checks, identity theft, whatever, because there are laws, lemon
laws and many other laws. Given an opportuntity to write laws favoring
their interests, organizations such as pharma will write the laws to make
their immoral behavior legal and then write advertising to convince you
they're your friend. Oil corporations are at this very moment receiving
government subsidies while oil is over $50 a barrel. If civility were
natural, would this be happening? This isn't mentioning all the really bad
stuff. All the moral judgments involved in white collar crime, bullying in
schools, gossiping around water fountains, needing to feel superior to
others, etc. etc. ad nauseum, happen every day by and to nearly everybody.
Historically and still in parts of the world, things are far far worse.
Where do you see inner moral sense?
>
> A moral law [a priori] need not be based on what "pleases the gods,"
> as Plato shows in _Euthyphro_.
Not please the gods, just please the police officer and the teacher and the
store detective and the IRS auditor.
It could just be that as we grow, we
> tend toward less egotism and more sense of the reality of others.
>
Growth is measured by dollars. Dollars negate the reality of others.
Andy Amago
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