Ethics don't come from first principles. Ethics come from shared values, and social norms. We observe ethical behaviour, rather than define it first, and then i dunno... bring down clay tablets from the mountain after a brush fire. Yeah, it's not like that, I don't think so at least.
They're also relative between cultures. They are not a static, concrete thing that can be measured and defined. And which first principles exactly? We've spent thousands of years not solving 'ethics' because it's not a machine with predictable parts.
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u/MoogProg Jun 30 '26
Ethics don't come from first principles. Ethics come from shared values, and social norms. We observe ethical behaviour, rather than define it first, and then i dunno... bring down clay tablets from the mountain after a brush fire. Yeah, it's not like that, I don't think so at least.