At any rate - it's clear to me that these goals are self-created, and different between different people, so claiming them to be universal seems wrong.
If you say so, but i don't think other animals and organisms are 'self-creating' the goal I described.
They come with that built into their neurochemistry, and so do we.
It's the closest thing to a universal moral system I could think of.
And I don't see it as utilitarianism, I was thinking of Buddhist ethics which also contains other precepts to counteract some of the pathological cases in utilitarianism.[1]
[1] Does it do so perfectly? Probably not, but it attempts to be a practical set of precepts, you still have to use your brain.
They come with that built into their neurochemistry, and so do we.
It's the closest thing to a universal moral system I could think of.
And I don't see it as utilitarianism, I was thinking of Buddhist ethics which also contains other precepts to counteract some of the pathological cases in utilitarianism.[1]
[1] Does it do so perfectly? Probably not, but it attempts to be a practical set of precepts, you still have to use your brain.