What Say You?

What say you?

I am working from the idea that there is something close enough to be called objective good and evil for our species. That is, there is real enough, testable data to establish that stuff that has a positive effect on our wellbeing and/or happiness exists, and for convenience‘s sake may be called good, and as well as what has a negative effect on our wellbeing and/or happiness which may be called evil. This is not just a collective concept. Our species is made up of individuals, each with a drive toward their own wellbeing and/or happiness and aversion to that which takes away from such. Therefore, it seems that we may be able to say that good and evil, or pleasure and pain or what have you, exists for the species and the individual.

Oh, I adore all the is-ness business of philosophy, all the thought experiments and contemplation about existence, for sure. But then reality occurs in my environment. As a nearly blind chick with an unsteady gait, I run into things. A lot. In my environment, there’s enough evidence as to what it feels like to successfully navigate a room without getting hurt or to fail. When I listen to or read about others’ experiences, I notice that for them it also sucks to fall down the stairs, for example.

I love metaphysics, but the hard-reality world, the facts of living exist in an imminent and evident enough fashion that for me, that has to be a starting point.

What say you?