What if our brain's architecture limits our ability to comprehend and consider our moral bearing?
What if many of us don't have a sufficient brain architecture?
Can
We
Judge
?
BTW, intelligence can be demonstrated without the complexity required for a sound moral position. I.e. Intelligent people can be immoral.
@jurban Are you suggesting that people cannot be judged for an impaired ability to possess a moral architecture compatible with other life similar to themselves?
We can judge them unfit. That's a judgement.
I'm not judging them based on their morals, or lack thereof, I am basing my actions and responses on my own morals.
A moral, to me, is similar to an axiom. It is why you choose some ethics and not others.
If an ethic is how you follow a mission, a moral is a reason for the mission.
@jurban I can see that a dog is rabid, and know it can't help itself, and know I can't cure it, and feel sorry for it, but still not let it bite me.
@jurban A moral is a value, an ethic is a strategy.
Exercising judgment is a strategy, which can be informed by morality.
My moral and ethical framework tend to reject or minimize punishment as a strategy.
I'm not motivated by wanting suffering for myself or others.
I'm motivated by wanting to protect, teach, redeem, build, inspire, grow.
I already want to hurt neither the guilty or the innocent.
If somone's broken, I want to know why, in case I can help.
But I won't let them run amok.
@AskTheDevil
Exercising Judgement is a process to Build a strategy.
Minimizing punishment may be an attribute of the building of a strategy, but is not fundamental. It might even be labeled as hedonistic.
Motivation is an outgrowth of world-view. That's the boundary of my current foundational view. I'm currently unable to argue beyond that given my lack of spirituality.
@AskTheDevil
I'll need a good night sleep to flesh out the hedonism topic...
But, I think we need to differentiate between individual actions and society adjustments. I'm only addressing the brain and the humans using it.