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"evil" is a subjective moral judgment of the behaviors of one species on one planet.
Says who?
People are judging the evils of the entire Universe all the time. If there were another conscious species invading and attempting to destroy us would we not have some moral and emotional tether to such a circumstance?
If another theoretical species was in a fight for survival on a distant world, would they themselves not have some emotional and/or potentially moral tether to such?
Comment by NotAnAIOrAmI at 13/09/2024 at 19:40 UTC
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If there were another conscious species invading and attempting to destroy us
But there isn't any such, so your theoretical example has nothing to do with the real world. Evil is attributable only to conscious beings. There is no good or evil in the universe, that's a judgment that conscious beings make about each other.
Comment by Velksvoj at 13/09/2024 at 15:39 UTC
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Moral realism is a problem to the materialists because there's no way to even make a distinction between mentation and non-mentation. For them, all their experience and data is just an illusory state of existence from which to derive no true subjectivity or objectivity - it's all just a question about some possibility of reality without consciousness, which can never be accessed, with some added semblance of ethical sub-awareness that they doubt and do not address rationally and consciously, in order for their subconscious mind to cling to their ideological ontological preference.
There is no way to speak of any world or reality logically without an all-encompassing moral propensity and telos to every possible aspect of it, both of which work only on idealism.