Ethics

[Strelok]

My ethics are not trying to compartmentalize literally everything in the world into easy to understand labels meant for mass consumption.

 

[Jack Haywood]

My basic rule is this:

Don't do anything that is unfair, unwise, impulsive or cowardly. Make sure your actions conform to the four classical virtues: Justice, Prudence, Temperance and Fortitude.

 

[WhatIsThePunchline]

I take an ethical naturalist perspective operating under the notion of people trying to maximize their eudaemonia and ethics being the most reliable strategy for doing so

Rather than eudaemonia, happyness or pleasure I'd prefer it if we defined 'value' as something humans attribute to things around them when they subjectively prefer one thing above another, and then accept that 'value' can be further modulated, as an example: 'meaningful value' would be weighted heaver than 'meaningless value'. Then we can further define what we find meaningful though I haven't gotten a definition for that I'm quite happy with beyond either 'longterm value' or 'things we'd prefer even at great personal cost'.

I'd also prefer context based ethics where we think of ethical approaches in terms of advantages, disadvantages, and what contexts any given approach would be most useful in. Though again, I'm not so good at ethics so I don't know what type would be good in what context.

Also why would ethics be the most reliable strategy for maximizing eudaemonia, what other strategies are there, why aren't those as good?

 

[Topaz Eyes]

Do you guys think the patients who died at Memorial Hospital during Katrina were murdered or was it ethically fine to give morphine because it prevented people suffering by drowning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Medical_Center_and_Hurricane_Katrina

https://archive.ph/C6Psy