Re: consistency and ethical positions
What? What the hell does the incompleteness theorem have to do with anything? Or are you planning on showing me that some ethical scheme is strong enough to prove number theory propositions a la Principia Mathematica? I also am not sure that we should start talking about completeness of moral systems in this context because I don't think you can do so sensibly without begging the question by assuming that we should be talking about morals/ethics as formal systems. Did Goedel do some philosophical work that I'm unaware of (I didn't read the entire Wikipedia link, you're going to have to be more specific) that you're really referencing?
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