Good is whatever keeps me alive and happy
Bad is whatever kills me or makes my life miserable.
Good is impossible without freedom. Freedom includes freedom
of choice.
It may seem freedom includes the freedom to harm others but
that is not true because harmed people will most certainly seek to harm you
therefore restricting your freedom and hampering your quest for happiness and even
jeopardizing your life expectancy…
What is a false claim for ethical behavior? A claim that
whatever is good for the majority must be imposed on the minority – it’s a
recipe for fascism, communism – oppression and extermination of those
considered not useful to society and even those who may be considered useful
but due to their convictions – unreliable. Judging that whatever is good for
the majority is good for everyone can also be used to justify for example slavery.
Slave labor in the USA before the civil war brought wealth to the nation yet
the nation went to a fratricidal war to abolish it. So whatever is done for the
common good but ignores the interests of the minority and the smallest unit of
minority is the individual cannot be good.
That’s why freedom is important and also because a society of
free people with various opinions and experience tends to be more knowledgeable
and better equipped for progress and problem solving when needed.
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