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
I've lost the objective.
Are we trying to fix the world or our next decision?
I can only fix myself and attempt to understand others.
I don't "believe" that people are "good". They're animals. Viscous. Selfish. When they get the chance to exercise their higher abstract thinking they might consider empathy and morality. Most don't. My original premise is that their brains can't manage it.