I don't agree.
>( we have to choose
>values in order to live )
But our moral judgements are supposed to be based on our
values, in which case to suggest that choosing a value is
a moral judgement, creates a circularity. How to get out
of it? Admit that your *most* basic values are not
chosen, but inherited (whether genetically or memetically
or both).
>Cry in vain as you might that you are not
>making any such judgments you can't get around it. To say something is
>"cool" for example is a moral judgment.
(a) I agree with Bob that it's at least as accurate to
portray this as an aesthetic judgement, as a moral one.
(b) I didn't mean it in that sense anyway, or I'd have
left out the quote marks. What I meant was, maybe this
view is too detached, disinterested, apparently
passionless, for some people. Of course, that wouldn't
prevent it being cool in the other sense, too. :-)
>As long as you remain a mortal creature you cannot
>pretend to detach yourself from the necessities of life, and morality
is
>one of them.
That's yet to be established, around here.
>I call em as I see em and if that means "projecting" , so
>be it.
If you're projecting, what you're seeing and calling is part
of *you*!
>( Asking me not "to project" is another moral judgment, by the
>way)
No, it's a request motivated by practicality.
-- Robin