Quote from: Meta Cognition on June 12, 2016, 06:20:16 PMExcept we don't have the luxury of always doing the (hypothetical) first-best option.Exactly. And in some situations, doing the first-best option is the moral option. But the world can be shitty, and humans can be shitty, so the moral option isn't always the one that makes the most pragmatic sense.
Except we don't have the luxury of always doing the (hypothetical) first-best option.
Quote from: SecondClass on June 12, 2016, 06:23:27 PMQuote from: Meta Cognition on June 12, 2016, 06:20:16 PMExcept we don't have the luxury of always doing the (hypothetical) first-best option.Exactly. And in some situations, doing the first-best option is the moral option. But the world can be shitty, and humans can be shitty, so the moral option isn't always the one that makes the most pragmatic sense.All this is is a disagreement in terms. We're thinking about the same concepts and the same ideas, but you have a more precise definition of morality. I don't think your definition is particularly useful, or enlightening, but I can see why you use it separately to 'pragmatic morality' or whatever term you want to use.