3rd September 2005, 11:29 PM
Logic can't provide what is moral, but it CAN tell you what is and is not contradictory to your own personal motives.
If your motivation is to live, and your reasoning is because you want to, there is this to consider. Other humans, from what we can tell, have their own self awareness. They too are motivated to live, most of them, and some may very well have that reasoning. Logically, you must extend to them the same rights that you extend to yourself.
Regarding cannabalism, well eating a human after they are already dead is personal preference. Killing someone TO eat them however does not take into account their own viewpoints, which logically are as valid as the one doing the eating. What I am suggesting here is that no matter the situation, even if "put to a vote", if someone does not want to be killed and eaten, and by the same token you yourself would fight tooth and nail not to be eaten, then logically it becomes immoral to eat the other person.
That is, if you even care about logic at all.
There is a very simple principle here, the principle of life ownership.
If you submit that you own your own life and have a right to it and no one can ever take away that right, all or in part, you must logically extend that same right to every other person on the planet. This must be maintained until sufficient evidence shows that other humans do not have self awareness and that you and you alone are the one that does. I can tell you right now that's not the case. At the very least, I do too.
Now then, as to the issue of helping total strangers, you are not obligated to help them by that logic. However, if you value supporting your own life, then you will at least humor what evolution has to say on the matter. So far, evolution seems to favor species that show compassion for their own kind. Thus, by serving the total stranger, you in turn serve your own needs.
However, if you do not value your life, and your end goal is in killing yourself or wandering as a ghost that doesn't care if it lives or dies, then never mind what I said. A totally different strand of logic will aid in those endevours.
Aren't most "mutants" inferior, genetically? I mean, x-men aside, most mutants I've seen have amazing super powers like gaping infectious growths with openings to the brain or the lack of most of their skeleton.
If your motivation is to live, and your reasoning is because you want to, there is this to consider. Other humans, from what we can tell, have their own self awareness. They too are motivated to live, most of them, and some may very well have that reasoning. Logically, you must extend to them the same rights that you extend to yourself.
Regarding cannabalism, well eating a human after they are already dead is personal preference. Killing someone TO eat them however does not take into account their own viewpoints, which logically are as valid as the one doing the eating. What I am suggesting here is that no matter the situation, even if "put to a vote", if someone does not want to be killed and eaten, and by the same token you yourself would fight tooth and nail not to be eaten, then logically it becomes immoral to eat the other person.
That is, if you even care about logic at all.
There is a very simple principle here, the principle of life ownership.
If you submit that you own your own life and have a right to it and no one can ever take away that right, all or in part, you must logically extend that same right to every other person on the planet. This must be maintained until sufficient evidence shows that other humans do not have self awareness and that you and you alone are the one that does. I can tell you right now that's not the case. At the very least, I do too.
Now then, as to the issue of helping total strangers, you are not obligated to help them by that logic. However, if you value supporting your own life, then you will at least humor what evolution has to say on the matter. So far, evolution seems to favor species that show compassion for their own kind. Thus, by serving the total stranger, you in turn serve your own needs.
However, if you do not value your life, and your end goal is in killing yourself or wandering as a ghost that doesn't care if it lives or dies, then never mind what I said. A totally different strand of logic will aid in those endevours.
Aren't most "mutants" inferior, genetically? I mean, x-men aside, most mutants I've seen have amazing super powers like gaping infectious growths with openings to the brain or the lack of most of their skeleton.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)