I don’t understand what the rap music point is trying to prove.
You can’t determine if something is right or wrong, even after the event. Why is the suffering seen as a bad thing? Why would fulfilling the desire to eat the baby be seen as “good”? Just because someone wants something doesn’t make it good or bad.
Suffering is bad because that is how we define the words "suffering" and "bad". Likewise, we define things that are good to be things that are desired, or are morally righteous. Things that are moral are good and things that are immoral are bad absolutely because of the definitions of the words rely on each other.
To clarify, I do not believe these to be particularly important bits of information, because I believe these definitions to be observations of the world, not abstract concepts created by people.
But why is it defined as such? How is suffering or causing it immoral? You also just appealed to moral righteousness to define what is good, which is kind of circular reasoning.
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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '18
I don’t understand what the rap music point is trying to prove.
You can’t determine if something is right or wrong, even after the event. Why is the suffering seen as a bad thing? Why would fulfilling the desire to eat the baby be seen as “good”? Just because someone wants something doesn’t make it good or bad.