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AlisLandale posted...

Society needs to be able to communicate morals. What it sees as right and what it sees as wrong.

From these agreed upon beliefs we build social contracts and culture.

You can argue theres no concrete, intrinsic metric by which to measure good or evil.

I don't think a lack of a concrete, intrinsic metric is what makes "good" and "evil" ineffective descriptors. they're just vague moral judgements.

But theres no concrete metric for descriptors like clever, stupid, brave, admirable, valuable, annoying, embarrassing, etc.

while it's true that there's no concrete metric for those words, all of them except "stupid" are much more specific descriptors, and none of them invoke a moral judgement

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