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What do you think would happen if they didn't stop sacrificing humans? Would it prevent them from being wiped out by the Christians?
And in this example, both you and I are presumed to be conscious, whatever that means.
If you aren't very careful, you will end up defining a moral action as an action that is moral!
Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic, is the process of reasoning from one or more statements (premises) to reach a logical conclusion.[1]Deductive reasoning goes in the same direction as that of the conditionals, and links premises with conclusions. If all premises are true, the terms are clear, and the rules of deductive logic are followed, then the conclusion reached is necessarily true.Deductive reasoning ("top-down logic") contrasts with inductive reasoning ("bottom-up logic") in the following way; in deductive reasoning, a conclusion is reached reductively by applying general rules which hold over the entirety of a closed domain of discourse, narrowing the range under consideration until only the conclusion(s) is left (there is no epistemic uncertainty; i.e. unrecognized parts of the currently available set; all parts of the currently available set are available and recognized).[2] In inductive reasoning, the conclusion is reached by generalizing or extrapolating from specific cases to general rules, i.e., there is epistemic uncertainty (unrecognized parts of the currently available set).[3] However, the inductive reasoning mentioned here is not the same as induction used in mathematical proofs – mathematical induction is actually a form of deductive reasoning.
Inductive reasoning is a method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence, but not full assurance, for the truth of the conclusion.[1] It is also described as a method where one's experiences and observations, including what are learned from others, are synthesized to come up with a general truth.[2] Many dictionaries define inductive reasoning as the derivation of general principles from specific observations (arguing from specific to general), although there are many inductive arguments that do not have that form.
The law seems to be reasonably consistent: humans use machines, not the other way around, and humans make decisions. The decision to engage autopilot or rely on an AI diagnosis, immediately confers liability on the person who made that decision, not on the machine or the machine designer, unless the machine is explicitly sold as "life critical". So for all practical purposes we can ignore the consciousness, whatever that is, of any person or thing other than the primary agent, in deciding whether an action is moral. Thus the Golden Rule is all you need.
No axioms apart from the Golden Rule itself. Humans being intellectually strong but physically weak, we survive and prosper by collaboration. If we generally treat others as we would wish to be treated, we get along and achieve stuff because our collaboration lacks resentment.
In other word, human would face higher risk of extinction, which is bad.
Only for humans. We are of no cosmic significance, and as far as other species are concerned we are mostly either food, competition for food, or predators.
I don't recall anyone mourning the loss of smallpox, and the extinction of malarial plasmodia doesn't have any obvious prospective downside. If the dinosaurs hadn't died out, would we even exist?
Best AnswerQuote (selected)ModifyRemoveRe: Is there a universal moral standard?« Reply #577 on: 07/09/2020 10:34:26 »The advantage of deductive reasoning is that your answer would be a logical necessity, as long as you provide correct premises and proceed with valid procedures. To guarantee correctness of the premises, we need to list them down in detail with unambiguous definitions, and compare them with known observation result of objective reality. Hence in order to refute the conclusion, all you need to do is point out which premise is incorrect. You would then can fix it to get the correct answer.
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