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Tuesday, October 25, 2005interesting discussion today about the origin of ethics. what exactly are "ethics"? is it some intrinsic machine that needs to be fueled and oiled by our so-called good deeds, or is it some manifest emotion as a result of sesame street and mom catching us when we steal from the grocery store? i've come upon the conclusion that its a set of egocentric tasks we align to ourself in order to get what we want in a way that "feels right", but that what exactly constitutes "feeling right" is completely subjective, and could be trained in any specific individual to be something that the rest of us would consider "bad". therefore, since ethics don't exist uniformly in all people, they don't exist at all, and are a mere reflection of our culture, which in itself is a reflection many individuals. ethics is a non-reductive account of the subjectivity held within every person, and for that reason can and must be discarded as another set of mind control.granted, without these ethics and morals society as we know it would become null, so i fully encourage the acceptance of morals for everyone else. supervenient functionalism=the answer to all our problems
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