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Originally Posted by Virgil Kaine
I have another stumbling point. The fact that you would want to replace a moral code with anything suggests without it there would be a void. "The second is a new perspective I'd like to offer up to sort of replace morality/ethics." If it's useless why replace it with anything?
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Okay, I have a better response to this:
Morality is a metaphor for the way we learn to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate action. Its a crap metaphor. The more accurate and useful metaphor is the naturalistic metaphor I am offering, something like story-telling as being the way we learn to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate action. This allows us to see the contingent, dedivinized, aspects of our interpersonal relationships that rest strictly on the way we speak to one another. (Also Occam's Razor)