I’ve always thought morality to be pretty simple: follow the Golden Rule or as Kant said, “act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should be universal law.”
Or, I guess, do no harm.
Well, I was enjoying a Happy Meal the other day and I began thinking about all the packaging that would end up in the landfill, the plastic toy that was produced by pumping poisons into the atmosphere and the meat that represented destruction of the Brazilian rain forests. I started feeling pretty guilty.
So, I gathered up the remaining fries and supersized soda and gave them to the obese little boy in the next booth who thanked me profusely.
It feels so good to undo a wrong with a right.
You’ve put your finger on the inherent ambiguity of descriptive and normative forms of moral theory and practice. Thanks for your clever and ironic work of art and commentary. G.
thanks, G.