I agreed with the first part of the text perfectly, though. I think he gets tangled up with personal desire, what he wants to be true, to morally justify/elevate his own lifestyle (aka rich and relatively idle pleasure-seeker). I've never yet read a moral philosophy that wasn't built around a pre-existing supposition/moral. People don't seem to use ethical systems to decide their moral values, but to support them intellectually.
The best way to improve society, I think, is to add choice; diminish the amount of necessary work overall (by coming up with better solutions and technology), which allows not only for prosperity but choice of occupation, since less time and effort is needed to do the necessary. But this is crippled by the salary system, leading to waste, so I dunno.
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Date: 2012-08-25 07:29 am (UTC)The best way to improve society, I think, is to add choice; diminish the amount of necessary work overall (by coming up with better solutions and technology), which allows not only for prosperity but choice of occupation, since less time and effort is needed to do the necessary. But this is crippled by the salary system, leading to waste, so I dunno.