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RE: There Can Be No Good
Empathy gives you the ability to know when you are harming others, when you are doing something against their will
Empathy gives you the ability to know when you are harming others, when you are doing something against their will
So it's the lack of harming others which is good. I can agree with that.
That is exactly what gives morality its meaning and it's reason of existence, to avoid doing others harm.
Exactly, but again, not harming others is the rest state. It is a zero point from which you cannot 'avoid doing harm even more'. Once you get to doing zero harm, you are at the lowest value. As in my essay, you are at zero height from the bottom, and can only move by adding to that value, doing some amount of harm. So harm is the real thing. Good is just a word for the natural state of being when nobody is harming anyone. You and they are resting at the zero point.
I can "do good" in two ways: the first is avoiding harm, and the others is doing some good, ie, doing something somebody wants, needs or desires.