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| Apr 7, 2014 at 20:54 | comment | added | Lucas | I see you've changed prescribes to describes - your answer seems internally consistent now. Still, without prescriptions I'd think it incomplete as an ethical theory (but, in turn, better as a sociological one). | |
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| Apr 7, 2014 at 19:55 | comment | added | user3164 | @Lucas Indeed, the whole approach is only concerned with the 'is'. There is no 'ought' in this theory. There isn't any 'should', 'supposed to' or 'the ends'. That's the beauty of it. :) | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 19:39 | comment | added | Lucas | OK. So you say it aims to avoid the is-ought problem, I'm saying that as you describe it, it does so by only talking about the "is" part of it. You have a system that describes what happens and is even capable of making predictions about what will happen if one makes interventions, what I don't get is how one is supposed to decide the ends to which interventions should be made. You can only give prescriptions once you've decided on what you think is good, as such, it tells you how (an 'is') to make changes, not which ones to make (a 'should'). | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 19:23 | comment | added | user3164 | @Lucas Not sure if I get your point, but... It isn't that you don't 'want' other people to not break the rules. It is only that you don't want to be punished for not punishing someone who brakes the rules. (I admit that the theory seems to require a rather high level of individual rationality, but such a level may be also be instilled biologically or psychologically. Then again, think of practical situations yourself. It does make sense.) | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 19:15 | comment | added | Lucas | To make it prescriptive, surely you do assume some goal. Otherwise, it can't say "you should punish for deviation" only the hypothetical "if you don't want people to break the other rules, then you should punish them". Isn't the only way of not having an "if" to specify a goal? | |
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| Apr 7, 2014 at 17:34 | history | answered | user3164 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |