The real challenge comes when trying to explain 'why'? And defining justly. How do these four words deal with abortion or capital punishment?

Flourish By Minimizing Harm.

Liberty By Minimizing Injustice.

How do these four words deal with abortion or capital punishment? — Tom Storm

They correctly frame the debate:

Is aborting a fetus treating a moral agent injustly? Is the proscription of abortion treating the mom unjustly?

To answer, you must answer:
Are fetuses moral agents? To the same degree as the mom? If so, their interests are in conflict. How do we justly resolve this conflict?

Is killing a felon treating a moral agent unjustly?

To answer, you must answer:
Does commiting terrible crimes reduce or eliminate moral agency? Is it ever just to take the life of a moral agent? How can capitol punishment ever be worth the injustice of killing the innocent?

Thanks.

Treat moral agents justly. — hypericin

You've achieved brevity at the expense of sense.

I am the only moral agent. Treating myself justly involves doing whatever I want.

Can't be captured so easily. :)

- act with being concerned (ok, that sounds a bit awkward); act with concern, yo!
- do tha' right thing
- do not do wrong; hey, do no harm (is that cheating?)
- get your conscience together (hmm maybe not so good)

Ethics in two words: Be Good.

Trite.

I am the only moral agent. — Banno

Disagreements in ethics are either disagreements over the terms... — hypericin

Trite — Banno

Yours, not mine

:wink:

Mine is succinct; yours is trite; his is vapid.

Apologise to Bernard Woolley.

1.Think consequences before actions
2. Value, respect people's needs
3. Examine conscience carefully always
4 Reasoned choice preventing suffering

I am getting a bit carried away with trying to define ethics in 4 words!

I got some ideas:

Do what God says.
Eat all rich people.
End suffering, destroy life.
Force happiness on all.

Think for yourself.

And I got a word to spare. :grin:

You have no choice

Go Fuck Your Self (Ayn Rand)

:up:

Don't listen to philosophers.

4 cardinal virtues

1. Prudentia
2. Iustitia
3. Fortitudo
4. Temperantia

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