About Morality
I believe the following is rather obvious, but it seems that people generally disagree violently. So far, I have not heard counter-arguments that could convince me. Of course I still cannot be certain that these arguments are correct, but here they are nonetheless. I propose the following: Ethics is theoretically solved. The solution is utilitarianism. Morality is just a simple subjective approximation of utilitarianism, and it does this because utilitarianism is approximately equal to egoism. Firstly, I define morality as "what feels right to do (subjective, depends on the individual)" ethics as "how we should actually act (objectively)" "we should do X" as "We want to live in a world where we do X" (similar to Kant's categorical imperative) utilitarianism as "what is best for the world, all things considered" (genetic) egoism as "what is the best action for the survival of my genes" If we want to find causal explanati...