What's So Great About Ushas?

Paul B · 11 Jul 2008, 03:13 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: pb.stuff at gmail.com (Paul B)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:13:10 -0400
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> Paul B wrote:
>
>> Wha?!  Saying that murder on a planetwide scale is wrong is not an
>> inherently utilitarian statement but a very general one.  It doesn't assume
>> much about a moral framework, save one that places inherent value on life.
>>
>
> That would be "on individual *human* life." Life in general will benefit
> enormously from the coming of Ushas, returning to the world-wide range where
> it had flourished in eons past.
>

And this right here would in fact be a utilitarian argument - the greater
good is achieved (assuming Ushas is actually so great, but that's irrelevant
for the moment).  However, "murder is wrong" is not utilitarian, which is
what I was saying before.  It can be a general outcome of several moral
systems.


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Paul Borochin
PhD student, Fuqua School
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