FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 1:13 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:05 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:52 am
So the wrongness of the breath holding is not inherited from an is, it is dependent on an ought - namely that you ought not to kill people.
It isn't an ought from an is.
Do you understand your fundamental failure yet? Of course not, you are a fanatic. So you will just put the same argument into different words and assume that makes it new.
Note my argument;
- P1. At first the ought to breathe is inferred from "is" the evident empirical, i.e. all living are [IS] observed to be breathing.
P2. Thus is in directly inferred 'all human ought to breathe' else the human species will be extinct.
C1. Then it deductively follows from no human can kill another human by preventing people from breathing by whatever the means.
Some humans must breathe or else the species becomes extinct,
so " 'all human ought to breathe' else the human species will be extinct." is obviously untrue.
This sort of clumsiness is a hallmark of all your work.
The above is due to the clumsiness of your thinking and reasoning not mine.
My P1 above did not assert 'SOME' but to ALL living humans.
This is observed from empirical evidences.
What is critical it is a personal confirmation you and each individual humans, i.e. they must breathe or else they know they will die.
You dispute this?
Science confirmed it is human nature that all humans but breathe to survive.
Thus by
reasoning and
theory,
ALL human
ought to breathe, else the human species will be extinct.
How can this
theory be untrue?
Your P1 has a goal-directed, morally neutral ought.
Your P2 adds nothing and is only there becuase you think syllogisms need a set number of Ps.
Your conclusion isn't a moral ought, it is practical one. Even if the P2 were valid the conclusion would not be a sound moral argument.
"ALL human ought to breathe" is basically a biological fact.
However, for the sake of improving good and right human behavior to preserve the human species, this biological fact can be deducted as a
moral fact via the argument below as confined within the moral framework.
- P1. Morality = principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour or activities.
P2. Breathing is a human activity and behavior
C1. Therefore breathing is subsumed within Morality.
Note what Hume condemned was ontological ought out of nowhere from an justified God [illusory] based on faith and not based on sound reasoning.
You keep thinking of such a moral ought from theological model of morality.
What I have introduced is a secular model of morality and ethics based on secular moral oughts not God-driven-oughts.
The point is when I embed the secular ought as justified above, it will work to facilitate improvements in right and good behavior of the individual human.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:05 am
I have also linked the above to morality:
- P1. Morality = principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour or activities.
P2. Breathing is a human activity and behavior
C1. Therefore breathing is subsumed within Morality.
All my premises followed to the conclusion.
Just don't say, show me systematically where did my subsumption of the premises failed.
P1 is fine
P2 is fine
C is neither necessary nor sufficient.
Neither P shows that ALL human activity or behaviour constitutes a moral choice. You just wrote that morality refers to human behaviours. So you have to find a reason for breathing in your sleep to become a moral decision to make this argument work, but that was the point of the argument, so it fails.
You are off tangent with "moral choice."
You have no basis to assert "C is neither necessary nor sufficient" when it is soundly deducted and followed.
Draw the relevant Vern Diagrams to check the 'subsumption'.
I asserted "all human ought to breathe" as a moral ought which is to be used as a GUIDE only. There is no question of having to make choice here.
Since it is merely a guide, there are no moral decisions as such.
What we have are flexible
ethical decisions, e.g. in euthanasia, murder by strangling, asphyxiation, and other evil acts that deprived one of oxygen leading to death.
Whilst the moral ought and absolute is merely a GUIDE only, it will not be enforced.
- Example
Thus where euthanasia is flexed [breathing stop artificially] and allowed due to circumstances, it must be contrasted with the moral GUIDE.
Say, there are 1000 cases of permitted euthanasia.
Because the moral GUIDE is ZERO euthanasia, the variance between the GUIDE and actual, is 1000 cases of euthanasia.
This will trigger actions to reduce the number of cases to as many as possible to the moral GUIDE - an ideal, most likely impossible to achieve .
Without the ZERO GUIDE, there will be no standard to improve on the number of euthanasia which could keep increasing each year and vulnerable to be abused by evil people.
Therefore to improve on good and right human behavior, we need an efficient moral framework where a
secular moral ought as GUIDE is imperative.
I have justified
secular moral ought as GUIDE as argued above.
YOU? you are not contributing an efficient framework nor system to guide the human individuals to improve on good and right human behavior in alignment with the natural flow of humanity.