Human Events

moral philosophy is a

game of complexity,

of nuance that the

truly gifted can

play with ease

they are the Kasparovs,

Karpovs and Fischers

of the thought realm,

able to see the mate

at least seven moves out

and we the rabble, all

capable in other pursuits,

look on with slack jaws

and drool leeching out

is it commanded by god

because god is good, or

is it good because god

commanded it?

is it best that the maximal

good be for the greatest number?

can suffering really be minimized

for the maximally great number?

are norms just fictions?

are categorical imperatives even real?

is there a moral theory that

can be reconciled with the

scientific method?

or are humans so depraved

than an authority external

to our reality is needed

to keep the flock in line?

it's been twenty-five hundred

years since philosophy dawned

onto human consciousness

and nobody has figured it out

and yet, we are mostly moral

beings that outnumber the

sociopaths and are appalled

when the sociopaths give into

their ruthless tendencies

it seems that pragmatism

always overrules the is-ought

problem, no matter what

no matter what the nuanced

ones want, the rabble seems to

set the course of human events