Dignity makes your ethical theory weak in the pants
- by Pixel
Have I ever told you that I have the greatest ethics teacher on the planet?
Okay, I asked him this question: “Is there such an action that can be committed that, though everyone had full knowledge of it and it never hurt or prevented good to befall anyone whether physically, mentally, or emotionally– ever– that is still morally wrong? Why or why not?”
And his reply included this wonderful thought experiment:
“Like me, you love love your abuela. You’re with your friends and
family the night of the rosary, bathing in memories, loving your grandma, and mourning her loss. Everyone leaves except you. You’d like to spend some private time with one of the people closest to your heart. You leave the room, noticing that aside from some custodians, no one else it here. Then you return to spend some final moments with your grandma. You get close to her, holding her hand as you talk to her. But then you start to feel some of those strange metamorphosis-induced feelings in your nether regions. The urge is so strong, the love so pure. You release yourself from the tightness of your clothing as you jump into the close confines of the casket. Then, slowly and gently you release your newfound sexual tension in a necrophilic manner.”
I’d post more of his response, but it might violate his rights.º
ºHa ha ha. Rights! As if any of us have rights! ((Oh, yeah… Copyrights…))
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Have I ever told you that I have the greatest ethics teacher on the planet? Okay, I asked him this question: “Is there such an action that can be committed that, though everyone had full knowledge of it and it never hurt or prevented good to befall anyone whether physically, mentally, or emotionally– ever– that…
I shudder to think of what the rest of his response must be…
If, and only if, the doer is also coincidentally a sociopath, and has no remorse or other perturbation of his psyche from this action, will this scenario fit your requirements. Otherwise, the knowledge is his, and the harm has been done to himself. One is reminded of the Mortician, whose wife had the wedding annulled when the man requested she soak in a bath of ice water on the honeymoon.