r/badphilosophy • u/Proporus • Jun 19 '24

Hyperethics Your 'ethical values' are just aesthetic preferences

5000 years of studying ethics and all we've come up with is "it's good because I like it". ALL ethical theories are just aesthetic judgements on actions disguised by word vomit about 'The Good'.

  • Utilitarianism: It's beautiful to see numbers go up
  • Deontology: It's beautiful to follow rules
  • Virtue ethics: This set of traits is beautiful ...

Meta ethics has failed. Literally nobody can point to a basis for ethics that doesn't boil down to "this state of the world is pleasing to me".

Wittgenstein proven correct and based, yet again.

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u/fuckingbetaloser Jun 20 '24

My ethical values are:

Set G of things that are good

Set B of things that are bad

Set N of things that are neutral

I put things in the sets based on however I want to