Mise
isle of lucy
I see that poll options often have something like "Whatever downtown does" as an answer. I feel that this is a good option in most cases, because downtown is basically always right. But in some cases, like the "do you leave your door open?" thread, there are situations where what downtown currently does is not necessarily what one ought to do in your specific situation. For example, downtown might leave his door shut, but if you have kids, you should leave it open in case they are sick or crying or something.
Perhaps a better answer, then, is not "whatever downtown does", but "whatever downtown would do, if he were in your situation". It's unreasonable for us to expect downtown to live a life that we can all live, simply because our situations are different. And, in any case, what makes downtown right is not simply what he does, but the person that he is, and the values he embodies. So this solution enables us to emulate downtown in a qualitative way, by imagining what downtown would do if he were in my situation.
And we can generalise this principle to deal with our interactions with other people. How many people here would hurt downtown? None. But how many people here hurt other people on a daily basis? Hell, we even hurt our loved ones! Perhaps, then, we should not only act more like downtown, but treat others as we expect downtown to be treated himself. And again, to account for differing circumstances, we need to generalise:
We ought to act as if everyone did whatever downtown would do in this situation.
I believe I have herein outlined a moral philosophy fit for all purposes, all times, and all people. To be clear, I do not claim to have invented this philosophy myself, but rather discovered the truth that downtown would have said, had he been in my situation, here, today.
Perhaps a better answer, then, is not "whatever downtown does", but "whatever downtown would do, if he were in your situation". It's unreasonable for us to expect downtown to live a life that we can all live, simply because our situations are different. And, in any case, what makes downtown right is not simply what he does, but the person that he is, and the values he embodies. So this solution enables us to emulate downtown in a qualitative way, by imagining what downtown would do if he were in my situation.
And we can generalise this principle to deal with our interactions with other people. How many people here would hurt downtown? None. But how many people here hurt other people on a daily basis? Hell, we even hurt our loved ones! Perhaps, then, we should not only act more like downtown, but treat others as we expect downtown to be treated himself. And again, to account for differing circumstances, we need to generalise:
We ought to act as if everyone did whatever downtown would do in this situation.
I believe I have herein outlined a moral philosophy fit for all purposes, all times, and all people. To be clear, I do not claim to have invented this philosophy myself, but rather discovered the truth that downtown would have said, had he been in my situation, here, today.
