@StevieG42069@Unevener115@LKSG_GSKL@SpideyInTARDIS@M_aiqThe_Liar I think ethics is a broader field compared to strictly speaking about morals. While I think “all forms of suffering are bad” (phenomenology and experience of it), I wouldn’t necessarily say “all forms of suffering ought to be avoided”.
@StevieG42069@Unevener115@LKSG_GSKL@SpideyInTARDIS@M_aiqThe_Liar That’s fair, I think there’s a point in philosophical discourse where language becomes an obstacle n definitions tend to fall short, hence the need for other forms of meaning like analogies, examples n metaphors. It ain’t perfect, but it gets the job done for me.
@StevieG42069@Unevener115@LKSG_GSKL@SpideyInTARDIS@M_aiqThe_Liar I believe the experience has a negative valence built into it so I have no issue with the proposition “suffering is bad”. Now, whether we ought to avoid it (stoicism, buddhism, etc…) or embrace it (Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, etc…) goes more into the ethics of it.
@StevieG42069@Unevener115@LKSG_GSKL@SpideyInTARDIS@M_aiqThe_Liar For example, I had a medical condition in the past that had me experiencing extreme pain n distress to the point where I could not even function as an agent. It’s hard to explain using language, but the experience felt and appeared to me as something “immoral”.
@StevieG42069@Unevener115@LKSG_GSKL@SpideyInTARDIS@M_aiqThe_Liar U could say so, there r frameworks like Nietzsche’s that says we ought to ‘embrace’ suffering cus it works as a sort of catalyst for growth. It would probably depend on what we mean by the word.
@LKSG_GSKL@Unevener115@StevieG42069@SpideyInTARDIS@M_aiqThe_Liar They’re arguing whether a proposition like “racism is bad” needs justification in ethical debates. U jump in n start talking about axioms, n the other dude corrects u by saying the proposition in contention is not an axiom. To me it looks like u’re not following the conversation.
@StevieG42069@Unevener115@LKSG_GSKL@SpideyInTARDIS@M_aiqThe_Liar Sure, but I’m talking about the phenomenology of the experience itself. Imagine u’re explaining into words the experience of falling in love to someone, suffering would be something like “the kind of experience that ought to be avoided” in this sense.
@LKSG_GSKL@StevieG42069@SpideyInTARDIS@M_aiqThe_Liar If you’re providing a justification/reason as to why X is bad, then it is not really an ‘axiom’…
An axiom would be something like “A=A” (Law of Identity), or “flourishing is good” and “suffering is bad” in the realm of ethics.
@drakloak@itzRex M not asking bout’ the jury’s decision, but ur take/evaluation on the topic. If the jury had said in Karmelo’s case that it wasn’t murder, would u be okay with that?
@drakloak@itzRex The issue here is that u’re not being impartial in your critique and not addressing the OP’s point. U highlight the amount of witnesses in the case of the stabbing, but also appeal to a very disputed claim where the only witnesses are the def n co-def… y is that?