FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:00 pm
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:27 am
You insisted humans must be kind and compassionate to
living non-humans, e.g. dogs, etc, but how can you reconcile this to people having to kill living non-humans for food?
I simply note that we have this language of morality about right and wrong and shit like that. If you want to make a set of facts out of it all, you have to include stuff like that.
The social practise of morality includes lots of stuff like reasons, explanations, conflicts and excuses. If your moral facts don't account for this sort of thing, you failed.
also, if your moral "facts" can't account for it being morally wrong to torture an animal for pleasure, you failed real hard.
This is why I stated you are ignorant of "what is morality" in its full perspective.
Like most Framework of Knowledge, the Framework for "what is right and wrong" has its PURE and APPLIED categories.
At present, generally, 'Morality' is attributed to the PURE aspects while 'Ethics' is confined to the application and practices related to the moral facts established with Morality [PURE].
My focus on moral facts is confined to the PURE aspects, i.e. Morality and how such JUSTIFIED moral facts to be used as GUIDE only as standard or moral objective for the Framework and System of Morality and Ethics.
Not ALL human actions are relevant for ethical considerations.
Obviously all human actions that are related and relevant to Ethics must be grounded on the JUSTIFIED moral facts and moral standards.
I have also stated 'Morality' is strictly confined to the human species only and only related to living non-humans if there are vested positive interests to the human species.
This is why the killing of living non-humans for food and other positive reasons are not a moral issue. So the killing of living non-humans things can be deal outside morality, e.g. psychiatry, psychology, etc.
If a madman [confirmed by psychiatry] had been chopping up people, how can we talk morality and ethics to him??
The killing living non-human things for pleasure or sadism is not a moral issue per se. It is not acceptable because such acts do not benefit the human species in general. Such acts are evidently a psychiatric issue which need to be addressed.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:27 am
My accusation is you are ignorant what is Morality-proper.
In various circumstance, there is need to treat living non-humans properly, but that is not Morality-proper which is specific and centered only on the human species.
Morality-proper is therefore worthless. It is clearly morally wrong to harm an animal without reason just as it is morally wrong to harm a person without reason.
It is medically [psychiatric] wrong to harm an animal without reason.
It is also a social, cultural issue but not a moral issue because animals [non-humans] do not belong to the human species.
The mad-cow thing is just another reason for why it is not morally wrong to do a certain action. Again, I already told you this. If it's not a moral question, you don't need any reason at all to do a thing. That's absolutely not a claim that all reasons for doing things are moral. You are supposed to consider yourself a talented philosopher, so why are you affirming the consequent like a child?
To make this absolutely clear, let's go again. I don't make an excuse to scratch my own balls because I don't need one, I just do the thing and there is no moral issue there to debtate. If I were to scratch your balls, that would need some sort of justification, not having one when needed would be a moral problem. If there were no moral factor in our treatment of animals, then you wouldn't need any excuse at all to justify kicking a puppy to death, not if you owned that puppy. Just like you don't have to make an excuse for eating an apple, unless the apple belongs to somebody else.
You cannot conflate animals which are not of the human species with morality - unless there is a vested interests for the human species.
For example, if one kick the puppy belonging to another human, then, there is a moral issue re what is owned by the other human and not with the puppy. In addition it is also a mental issue.
I understand Henry is not into morality-proper in its full perspective. The only point we agree is 'no human ought to be a chattel slave to another human' based on his principle of 'own_ness'. I am agreeable to this point but there are more deeper basis to it.
That's the wrong language to be using about facts, that sort of talk is for opinions.
Are you 'agreeable' to the speed of light being 100km/hr?
Is the principle of "he who smelt it dealt it" an adequate way to determine who farted as long as you agree with the outcome of a specific investigation, even though yuo think there is "deeper basis" available?
Facts man, you claim to have them, show that they resolve error the way actual facts do.
As I had argued you are using the term 'fact' is a very narrow and specific sense of the
logico and linguistic perspective favored by one specific class of philosophers, i.e.
analytic philosophy. This view is very contentious [note Wittgenstein and Quine] and in my view very limited.
What is more pertinent to discuss "fact" is this;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact
and mine,
What is Fact?
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29486
I have also provided my argument re the justification of moral facts from empirical evidences and philosophical reasoning.
Then you have failed. You are not capable of putting together moral fact. No sane perosn in the world has any need for any argument that depends on it not being immoral to hold a dog down and shit on its head. This is not a moral fact, but it is a fact about morality and what we use it for.
Whatever fact about morality [PURE] must be grounded on objective grounds which must be justified as Justified True Moral Beliefs.
Yes, no sane person would do that, that is why the insane are dealt within psychiatry and not morality-proper.
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:27 am
But for humans in other parts of the world who punch dogs in the face, beat them and
eat them for food,
what moral facts as
moral grounds do you have to condemn them as immoral and what they are doing is wrong?
(note, as for humans-only I have Justified True Moral Belief [
JTm
B] and moral facts to support what is to be used as moral standards for human beings only.)
There are no moral facts. What we are seeing here is that your attempt to assert moral facts has come entirely undone as soon as you had to describe some. Now you are in the absurd position of not being able to morally condemn what any decent person can see is morally reprehensible behaviour.
This is a straightforward Reductio ad absurdum and you did it to yourself by being shockingly shit. Nobody laid a trap for you, you were just given the opportnity to fail horribly and you seized it. There was no reason why you had to exclude animals in this thing of yours, you aren't a Contractarian so far as I can see. It was just lazy, and stupid, self-harm.
For you, that there are no moral facts is driven by dogmatic ideology and confirmation bias.
When I have Justified moral facts as grounds and standards, I am able to condemned anyone as immoral if they act against those moral facts.
My moral facts as grounds will cover all evil acts related to intra-human-species and not inter-species except where there is an vested interest.
Where inter-species acts and issues are involved, we review them then determined whether the acts are due to insanity or mental issues which need to be dealt via psychiatry and not necessary morality and ethics.
Suggest you research more into what is Morality proper and its related Ethics.