Posted 24 October 2009 - 22:50
regardless of waht you say every living person is Kantian. this is due to the very nature of ethics, morals, blah, blah, blah. ethics are assumptions made upon a bias point of view. Case and point if a tiger is in the room would you feed it the old or the child and allow the other to escape. Well, one argument would say that the old man has less time to change and make something of his life, while another would say that the child is too young to change anything at the moment.
Regardless of how good the presented data it still stands that ethics are built upon opinions. Which is why so many forms exists. Kantian is based on opinion, while the other seems to be more "statistical". However, ask any scientist to look at something as complicated as a data set of human behavior and make an assessment and you're fucked, almost every single one would have a different opinion and say what is the "best" line of best fit (in this case the "best" approach that would benefit the largest group of people). Case and point, again, look at most campaigns in history (political ones I mean) meant to "help the people" and look at how many of them screwed over a larger group of people than it helped, far too many, because you cant crunch numbers and expect humans and nature to respond as planned.
Furthermore, Kentian ethics itself is only half right. "Do onto other as you would have done onto you" (btw, this is Jebus' golden rule, so at least give the man his credit for this). Well, if you're the unlucky bastard who has a man point a gun at you and you either pull your own or die, which would you rather? 99% would draw and kill in self-defense.
The only ethical/moral system I believe is correct is the second half of Kentian, do as you believe, fuck everything else. As for why? Humans have free thought, its there for a reason, its a natural advantage and disadvantage depending on who has it. Whether you invite the caveman with the club into your house and break skull, he breaks yours, or you live happily ever after is so unpredictable that it matters not anyway, people will do as they wish.
[indent]Garrod "Newtype Killer" Ran[/indent]