Not sure why this got removed from 196lemmy…blahaj.zone but it would be real nice if moderation on Lemmy gave you some sort of notification of what you did wrong. Like an automatic DM or something

  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
    3·
    9 months ago

    This is a very superficial view on the matter. You would have to consider all factors.

    Which practices lead to more trauma? To more future victims? What are the long-term consequences for the future? Does one decision lead to more suffering in humans 3000 years in the future for some reason? Etc. Objectively, one way is the better one. We just don’t know which one it is.

      • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
        2·
        9 months ago

        I would say we can’t in most cases know exactly or even approximately what is the objectively morally better decision. But that doesn’t make it less objective. It just makes it hard or perhaps even impossible to know.

          • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
            2·
            9 months ago

            Because for something to be considered objective the only necessary condition is that how something is lies entirely with the object itself and not with the person(s) looking at it. Whether or not we can measure it in actuality doesn’t matter for that definition.

            Consider you could wire every existing person up to some kind of device that measures their physical and psychological pain and gives out a number, it doesn’t matter who looks at it, it would obviously always be the same number.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
              11·
              9 months ago

              You think everyone has the same levels of physical and psychological pain tolerance? Nonsense. I have trigeminal neuralgia. I’m would bet my pain tolerance is objectively a hell of a lot higher than yours at this point.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
                  11·
                  9 months ago

                  I thought the device was a way to measure objective truths. How could they be objective if our numbers are different for the same type of pain generation?

                  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
                    2·
                    9 months ago

                    Because the question isn’t whether or not each action causes the same pain in everyone, but whether or not it is theoretically measurable and comparable.