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In a democracy, would this be ethical? I think not, because if then they'd have to change it by voting and through the process. Before any vote, campaigning happens where each small group or person …

The simplest way for you to answer for yourself is to ask yourself what you would expect of others if you hired them to work for you and they acted in that way towards you as an employer. It would see …

Applying the categorical imperative loosely, it seems unlikely that the homeless people lacking a coat would demand that the OP puts down their dog and spends the money on coats. Similarly it seems un …

According to Wikipedia: For instance, Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, described utility as "that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, …

No, that's silly. While one may need to appeal to emotions to justify several moral positions, the logical fallacy of "appealing to emotions" must still be avoided in an argument. Not every appeal to …

Atheism / Agnosticism are not the kind of philosophical that prescribe any morality. Obviously they reject any knowable divine morality, but else there are various moral positions possible with atheis …

This does not look like a philosophical question, but one about cultural history. Violence as an act drives a narrative. By committing an act of violence, a story character can significantly and cheap …

Like with many issues of objectivity in the absence of ground truth: whenever any two people are to agree on an argument for A being better than B, they both need to share a value system between them. …

Moral disagreements need not be settled. Various situations of coexistence of multiple positions within the same society are thinkable, with plenty of precedent in human history. Often, a pragmatic so …

No, in general false beliefs can be utterly harmless in having zero negative consequences. I'd I believe Elvis Presley had naturally brown eyes, that belief would likely not cause me or anyone else an …

In normative ethics, there is no general agreement about natural rights and on who should be granted them for the corner cases. … So in descriptive ethics, we can analyse for each culture and time epoch, which rights were granted to entities who are not average adults. …

Philosophers do not generally restrict morality to physical actions, but to controlled actions having a potential impact outside of the mind. BUt most mental processes either do not classify as contro …

The Christian god is complex. There is the old versus the new testament, and then there is the holy Trinity, it is a huge mess really, a hodgepodge of different mythological traditions of various trib …

No. To start with, objective morality as in "natural law" could exist even without gods. And then the presence of gods disagreeing with it would trouble objectivity. Similarly, any number of moral fra …

It is discussed a bit on sites like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_marginal_cases https://iep.utm.edu/animals-and-ethics/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-animal/ https://www.britannica.com … Outside writing on animal rights specifically, the argument seems not mentioned much, and it does not seem to be influential to the topic of ethics in general. …