Professor to Class: How would you find out how tall someone
is?
Student: Measure them.
Professor to Class: How would you find out how much someone
weighs?
Student: Measure them.
Professor to Class: Now how would you find out if an action
is right or wrong?
Student: Well when we determine height and weight we are
quantifying but we cannot do that with actions; we can’t quantify actions. We
don’t say an action is 7 feet high or weighs 23 pounds.
Professor to Class: But we do qualify actions, we do qualify
actions as right and wrong. I’m asking you what we hold the actions up to in
order to determine their rightness or wrongness. We stand by a ruler or step on
a scale, what is used to determine rightness or wrongness?
(to be continued)
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