cher@ihlpm.UUCP (cherepov) (06/13/85)
> Your subject line asks the question "Is good logical?" I prefer not to > cloud things with words like "good" and "evil". Everyone on this planet > thinks the best morality is based on good. The problems occur when you ask > each of them to define good. Logically, the MOST good would be accomplished > by that system which is good to the most people over the longest period of > time. Last sentence is the very point you have to prove to keep going. For alternative viewpoints: Badman: Logically, the MOST good would be accomplished if I could rape and kill for breakfast. Piousman: Logically, the MOST good would be accomplished by seeking the will of god. You can quibble with the latter whether his god exists, but the former does not make any more assumptions then you do. So far, your only objection to his assumption was "vast majority will beat him up". I am not convinced it will kill off such philosophy. > It would seem logical that > the system that produces the most good for the most people for the longest > time would work out to be the best (most good) in the long run. Rererepeated. In case you have not noticed the above does not make any sense for Genghis Khan. It is not at all logical! Good system is such in which he can be the mightiest he can be. Yeah. To hell with others. Your logic is based on what you're conditioned to like. > ... it is the acts of interference on the part of the > interferers that lead people to put a stop to them, NOT their "morality". Let me state what your remark implies: Thou Shalt Not Interfere Unless Interfered With. Once again: you chose yourself a dogma. I subscribe to it too, but for somebody else "kill 'em all" is just as obvious as yours for you. Whether they killed for it does not prove diddly. The point I was making: self-consistency is the only measure. You still can do a lot with it. I hold on to my views as to the most self-consistent. But let's recognize the importance of traits injected into my personality. Mike Cherepov -- What do you think of a wise cruel man?