DECIDABILITY IN ETHICS AND MORALITY
All NECESSARY cross-group ethical, and moral propositions are decidable by reciprocity (natural law).
All NORMATIVE in group ethical and moral propositions are decidable by natural law if they are not decidable by normative means.
All PREFERENTIAL interpersonal ethical and moral propositions are decidable by normative means, if they are not decidable by personal means. If not decidable by normative means, then by natural law.
LEGiSLATIVE AND REGULATORY LAW has absolutely nothing to do with whether a proposition is ethical or moral – AT ALL. This is despite the fact that common law evolved, religous law evolved, state law evolved, and legislative law evolved, to resolve interpersonal, inter familial, inter tribal, inter class, and inter national conflicts.
Most questions of ethics are the result of nothing other than conflation of that which is local and different into that which is universal as an attempt to claim authority for one’s personal, normative, or national preferences.
Source date (UTC): 2017-01-04 11:56:00 UTC
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