Theme: Science

NO. MORALITY IS AS OBJECTIVE AS THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES

(propertarian basics)

No, moral decidability is perfectly objective. Pseudo-moral norms may or man not be in fact moral. Subjective moral bias, may or may not be in fact moral. But moral rules are not subjective. It’s that your moral intuitions consist of possible truths combined with, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, and outright deceit.

Morality is a purely scientific discipline. The purpose of the scientific method is to eliminate the various falsehoods from our imaginations and our speech.

We don’t like that morality is scientific, any more than we liked that science disproved our religious beliefs. But our moral intuitions and our moral beliefs are just as false as our assumptions about the religious statements and pre-scientific era assumptions.

If you think morality is subjective you are just as ridiculous as flat-earthers, and theological fundamentalists. There isn’t any difference except the excuses that you use. You just use different excuses.

So deal with it. There is very little difference between your presumption of moral subjectivity and moral dictate. Instead, morality is objectively scientific and we just lie a lot to get away with lots of falsehoods in this era like we did the past eras.

There is only one silver and one golden rule: Do nothing to impose a cost upon that which others have imposed a cost to create or accumulate. And therefore limit your actions to those that consist entirely of productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers, limited to productive externalities. The evolutionary function of morality is to aggressively prohibit the free riding in its various forms so that we preserve the incentive to cooperate, because with the expense of the human life form, it is only through cooperation in the production of calories in all their forms, that we defeat the dark forces of entropy, time, and ignorance.

That’s it. Morality is as scientific as are the physical sciences with the only difference being that because we possess memories, we are able to borrow and lend cooperative efforts across time. We have the ability to ‘calculate’ using memory by means that the universe cannot.

But otherwise we are not different from any other form of organized matter in the universe: we are bound by the physical rules of it. And those that disobey those rules are extinct, or out gunned, germ-ed, steel-ed, norm-ed, and institution-ed, cultured, and genetic-ed, by those what obey them more closely.

Period. End of argument. Social Science is SOLVED.

Curt Doolittle

The Philosophy of Aristocracy

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine