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RE: The beginning and end of humanity — Are there incomplete humans?

in #philosophy7 years ago

Well, the problem arises when we disconnect the metaphysics of reality from society and suspend our belief in anything sacred for the sake of consistency.

That's the limit of formal logic, forwarded by the categorical imperatives of Kant. We're bound to experience paradoxes we then attribute to social construct.

We will ignore intuitive morality, as it can be subjective and praise the primacy of objectivity.

As as society we have tried to create a self-consistent system, assuming that that's the proper way to live.

I am rambling now. My point is, what do we value more as a society and what we want to achieve?

For example, now we consider war and death as bad things and we value harmony and peace more. But back in 1000 bc, war was a way of living. It was used as a tool to reconcile the material dialectic.

The great existential questions, could be perhaps reframed as questions of intention. The question of abortion: What we will achieve by making this a wide-spread phenomenon or what we will achieve if we make it illegal?

The absolute morality of the matter, should be considered, but shouldn't be a high priority. What are the consequences of abortion in society and the mother? Mostly negative according to statistics.

I don't know if any of what I wrote makes sense, but I didn't have my coffee yet, so that's that...