Hi, there Phyllo
It is good to hear from an ethically-sensitive person, one such as you who has a conscience that is wide awake. I’m looking forward to further discussion on topics of mutual interest; and to your offering further corrections and updates, suggestions for improvement, with a view to forging out a superior theory of ethics, extending its structure, so that eventually it covers a lot more ethical data than any previous theory was able to do.
I agree with everything you wrote quoted above. Thank you for a relevant and meaningful contribution to the ongoing discussion
If anyone is curious about my motivation in arguing that someone with an ethical character would be alert to the schemes of a ‘human predator,’ I was influenced by the essay on Virtue Ethics (VT) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy when it explained the virtue “honesty.” It claimed that an individual who is thoroughly honest would, in effect, “smell” dishonesty when in its presence, and would be revolted by it.
Since honesty is one of the qualities possessed by an individual of good character [which is, as you know, the focus of my theory of Ethics] I generalized from that – and, in the process, probably over-generalized.
Mea culpa.
Thanks again for speaking up.