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  • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mltoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025English
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    4 minutes ago

    and you base that expectation on what?

    hopes and dreams?

    I’m sorry, what?

    this is predicated on a false assumption. you don’t know ants and humans experience different subjective experiences, you just strongly suspect it.

    Sure, in the same way I have no knowledge of anything except “I think therefore I am”.

    If you apply this level of skepticism it’s impossible to move beyind solipsism.

    You’re free to apply that standard, I wouldn’t be able to prove knowledge beyond it and then all conversation stops here.

    If you’ll at least grant me a mutual belief in the external world so we can probe it and collect empirical data we can “pretend” is knowledge then we can build up a more interesting philosophy beyond “I don’t believe anything exists at all but me”.

    knowing =/= suspecting. which is why you follow this illogic down to an incorrect conclusion of your “expectation.”

    No, I follow it because out of utility I’d like a more useful philosophy than solipsism.

    the greatest challenge of our age is dispelling the victorian myth that knowledge of the real world is untouchable to us.

    What? That’s literally what you just argued? Now you’re trying to dispel it?

    the distinction between you and other does exist, but we are not locked out of the world. we can deduce real facts about things outside our perception.

    Why should I not respond “this is predicated on a false assumption. you don’t know real facts outside your perception you just strongly suspect it.”?

    You just flipped your argument around 180 degrees?

  • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mltoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025English
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    13 minutes ago

    the regress problem states that all human knowledge is axiomatic.

    it is true for literally every single possible proposition.

    Okay so it’s clear you understand why I brought it up and that it’s true.

    I don’t know why the rest of the comment is phrased so angrily but if you’re just saying I’m right I don’t know how to respond to it lol.

    asking him to overcome this problem is so fucking far outside the scope of what you’re arguing about as to be ridiculous, you look silly.

    I wasn’t asking him to overcome it, I was astonished he would claim he could overcome it because it’s as obviously true as we both claim.

    Not sure why I look silly if you keep telling me how absolutely right I am in all contexts lol

  • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mltoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025English
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    19 hours ago

    Just because its easy to get a bunch of humans to agree say murder is wrong, doesn’t mean you can call that objective.

    The reason humans and ants differ so much in morality is because of the difference in the subjective experience of being a person versus being an ant.

    If morality is subjective, you’d expect creatures with similar subjective experiences to agree with each other.

    You’d expect one subjective blob of rules to conform to human biology/sociology and a separate blob of subjective rules to apply to antkind with no real way to interface between the two.

  • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mltoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025English
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    20 hours ago

    Yet you, and every other human still engage in moral behaviors.

    Just human? I mean, sure do, but we’re leaving out a huge array of animals who also engage in rudimentary moral behavior.

    You have some prescriptive intuition buried deep inside you.

    Of course, we evolved to be social animals did we not? What else would you expect but inate instinctual “rules” when they’d lead to a clearly fitter society.

    The ability to describe the components, inputs and outputs of that intuition is the entire conversation.

    Right, and just like the variation in genetic material this variation in inputs and outputs that we all have which are wholly unique to us as individuals and while remarkably similar to others raised in similar environments, also remarkably unique in subtle ways.

    I agree this is the entire conversation. And the obviousness of this fact, that moral expression is subtly unique to each individual, is the ultimate answer to the question.

    If you are raised in a subjectively different environment, then the rules you learn to behave by will be subjective to that environment.

  • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mltoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025English
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    20 hours ago

    “Morality is subjective” is the inevitable conclusion of a secular, empiricalistic worldview.

    Essentially, now that we are in a scientific world disagreement is resolved through experiment.

    Disagreement not resolvable through experiment is removed from the realm of science, and is called falsifiable and is seen as subjective.

    If you and I disagree, there are no scientific tests we can run to resolve moral issues.

    And since we can’t point to a God or objective moral laws, it doesn’t even matter if one theoretically exists because it’s inaccessible and infalsifiable. Effectively it doesn’t exist for us.

    Both of us are following different moral standards, the “rules” in your head are not the same rules that I’m subjective to.

    You’re morals are subjective to your experience, it simply is a fact.