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There are no moral or ethical solutions; ethics and morals are nodes in the struggle of life |
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People often invoke moral or ethical solutions to major problems. I think morality and ethics have actually changed very little in the past 10 to 15 thousand years. There are technological solutions to problems, but no ethical or moral solutions. Ethics and morality are, generally, terminal phenomena. Although we observe them and embody them, reasoning about them changes very little. At most, we can say "X is reprehensible". What does that get us? It often causes us to think "the solution to X is also reprehensible, because X is reprehensible". Instead, I think people should focus on technology. By technology I don't mean only TVs and cars and that sort of technology. Technology includes education. And of course we should consider the ethical and moral consequences. But we shouldn't, at this point, endow ethics and morality with determining power, because it is an illusion. [Reply] |
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