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Originally Posted by TGS
Is then "sustaining society" an unquestionable good, and if so, which "society" are we talking about - human society, western society, Judeo-Christian society, African society, current society, future society?
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In order to define whether a society is "good," we have to be able to define and quantify its ethics... and I think it's clear that that task is impossible at present.
Are those all independent societies? Or are they sub-societies of one overriding society, Humanity? Should sub-societies have ethics that are different from the overriding society?
If each society is independent, and by extension, can have its own independent set of ethics, how are we to determine which set of ethics is ethical, and which is not?
Is the current (apparent) breakdown of ethics a sign that independent societies are colliding with each other like errant galaxies, causing a chaos that will not re-coalesce until the galaxies either separate, merge into one, or fraction apart into numerous independent entities mixed from the two?