Reply to Erin about Morality Test

This is a reply to an FI post dated Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:35 AM.

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/fallible-ideas/conversations/messages/10909

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[FI] Morality Test

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On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Erin Minter <erinminter@icloud.com> wrote:
> http://ramirustom.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-do-you-know-if-something-is-morally.html
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>> How do you know if something is morally good or not? What’s the check? What’s your test?
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>> Say 2 people are thinking about doing something together.
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>> Say one of them has an idea that is being considered as a common preference (cp). A cp is an idea about how to proceed that they both have no criticisms of.
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>> And say one of them has an objection to that idea. Then it’s not a cp. So it’s not morally ok to act on this idea.
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>> If nobody has any objections, then it’s a cp. So it is morally ok to act on this idea.
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> I think the "something" could still be immoral (objectively).  Even if they agreed on proceeding with the action, I don’t think that means the action itself is always moral (will enhance/further/promote their lives).

I didn't mean immoral objectively. 

I don't think it makes sense to think of it as you are. Because nobody is omniscient, so there's no way to omnisciently check if something is morally ok or not.

-- Rami