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Arcadia
@chaoticsmol.dev
Siobhán 🪏@shibbi.me

Tired: morality is real because it has to be Wired: morality isn’t real, it’s constructed through active social negotiation Inspired: reality isn’t real, it’s constructed through active social negotiation

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jasminevp.bsky.social
@jasminevp.bsky.social

Does the negotiation theory of morality imply that you really can derive what ought to be from what is, specifically what is the initial negotiating position of all the parties involved?

Arcadia
@chaoticsmol.dev

Something something Hume's guillotine something something the presumption of equal participation in an unequal society something something morality is a spook used to oppress and control people and the power to internalize or reject these things at any time is core to what it is to be human

jasminevp.bsky.social
@jasminevp.bsky.social

Sure, you have the power to reject at any time the consensus of everyone else in your society that, for example, we’re not going to murder each other and are going to punish everyone who murders because we all don’t want to be murder victims— but is it really a smart move to do so?