Yeah, all this blockchain think put me into a meta-ethics jag the other day. Well, it was just one video that aptly summarized many of the branches and categories. I found it interesting to realize there is this entire world of ethical foundations strictly defined.
Interesting up until where I heard him say: “Most people don’t identify with just one. Instead, most people identify with principles from several that help them form their moral views.”
Anyway, philosophy, ethics, and meta-ethics are all part of what forms a person’s character, and people might subscribe to one or more of these schools of thought or styles of beliefs without even knowing of their existence as it pertains to the realm of philosophy and or psychology. Similar to how one could be a Pisces or a Libra while knowing nothing about astrology.
The sentence I quoted made the entire branch seem somewhat unimportant, kind of like astrology. I guess it’s interesting, but only in the sense that we’re all living in a world with radically different ideas of right and wrong and what the best way to do things is. What’s concrete and real to some may be less concrete and real to others.
This is how you can have a world where; Flagging for reward disputes is a “wrong” in the eyes of some, while revenge flagging is the “wrong” for others. That reminded me to do some research into Ayn Rand's objectivism because that's a thing, albeit fringe. Before getting too deep into that one, I was thoroughly exhausted.
It would be useful if they had personality tests to find out where people fall on this scale and how that correlated to different religious beliefs, personality types, Myers-Briggs, for example, etc.. etc.. I bet a lot of these different ideas or people made categories interrelate or correlate to one another.