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A Boring Dystopia
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Here's the functional basis of my system of morality:
isDeceitful() ? immoral : moral;
Try viewing that list through this lens. I don't give a shit about peoples' choices if they don't have an appreciable halo effect.
Mine is based on the consent and consensus of the other sentient beings involved. For example, drinking alcohol around people who are cool with you being intoxicated, or doing it alone, is perfectly fine. Getting blackout drunk around people who do not consent to taking care of you is not.
All forms of hierarchical authority are never moral because they always violate consent and consensus. All governments, corporations, and organized religions are immoral.
Are non-human animals sentient?
Yes.
Mine is a tad more complicated.
Make a list of all the possible ways to accomplish something that you can think, sort them from the ones that will benefit other living things the most, then the ones that will do the least harm to other living things, and at the bottom, the ones that will do the most harm to other living things.
When the harm is similar, put first within that range the ones that will do the least harm to those who are cloest to you.
Once you have the list, try to do what's at the top of the list. If you can't, move down the list until you can do what you need to do.
Would the most moral way to kill someone I personally don't like involve donating all their organs to hospitals? Would the most moral way to get a billion dollars be counterfeiting?
I think your system fails to address that some things are always immoral.
What does that translate to in English?
Is it deceitful? Left. Otherwise: right