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Bad: What someone disapproves of,
does not desire, does not like to exist. See
Good. In
Chapter
11 of
"On "The Logic of Moral Discourse"" there is a minimalistic
realistic treatment of "good" and "bad".
There is a somewhat objectivized sense of bad apart from what
someone disapproves of, namely in terms relating to human
needs or
pains: What hurts or harms. One important problem here is that these
fairly objective terms in ordinary
human practice - "homo homini lupus" - tend to get
relativized to the interests of
Us and Them: Good
is what is Bad for Them or what pleases Us; Bad is what is Good for Them
or what displeases Us.
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