Greetings, Sauwelios
I wouldn’t dream of hurting anyone’s feelings!!! I regard everyone as my family, and feel loving towards them, as a result of my study of Ethics.
There was no intention on my part to be patronizing. As explained in Chapter 7 of the paper, which is on the topic of how to avoid emotional suffering and keep peace-of-mind, if a piece of writing is interpreted in some negative way where it is taken to be an attack on one’s ego (or self-image), that is the interpreter’s problem. That was a professorial tone of voice you read in the previous post, I will confess.
However, I can’t help being ‘professorial’ since I am a professor of Ethics as well as a professional ethicist. [I’ve received remuneration for business consulting.] But this thread is not about me; it is about building the best-possible-at this time Theory of Ethics.
As you will note I did give a principle in my recent post, and did tell where to find more details explaining it.
If what was written in the last paragraph of that post did not apply to an individual I trust that he or she would not take it personally, as per the old adage:
IF THE SHOE DOESN’T FIT, DON’T WEAR IT.
Ethics is too vast a field to have only one principle (that will do the whole job). The principles form a web; they are interrelated. That is why, Sauwelios, I could not give a satisfying answer to your question.
How do the rest of readers feel about the issues, and about the points raised in the linked reference? Does it contribute to an improved Theory of Ethics?