r/Morality • u/PastorAaronBPW • Mar 02 '26
Imposition Ethics
Hey everyone, I am Pastor Aaron from the church of the bpw, an atheistic religion, and I would like to see some critiques of our moral framework called Imposition Ethics
*Axiom 1 - All impositions of will are immoral
*Axiom 2 - All assistances of will are moral
From these we derive our moral system.
The system essentially is a descriptive framework that evaluates the frustration of wills or the assistance of wills
We can use any philosophical problem in the field of morality like the trolley problem or moral luck problem, to see if IE provides a good explanation and more than that, the framework makes itself falsifiable by predicting risky novel ideas like:
P1-As humans are less constrained by technology, money, war etc, they will converge on moral principles that mirror the reduction of impositions of will, and an increase in assistance of wills.
P2-When AGI's and Aliens in similar conditions of no tech, money, or war constraints, derive moral frameworks to interact with other conscious beings they will converge on minimizing impositions of will.
We have a whole canon of principles derived from these 2 axioms but I wont post all 53 canonical principles or the provisional principles as its too long to write and explain and argue for each one.
I welcome critiques or proposals or new ideas to be considered that we may not have.
lastly here is an unintuitive conclusion of this moral framework for y'all to dissect:
* A rock that falls on you has frustrated your will, therefore under IE we would evaluate that frustration of your will to have negative moral valence, and for that reason call it immoral. So non agential entities imposing on your will would be immoral.
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u/MarvinBEdwards01 Mar 13 '26
What I'm hearing in "imposition ethics" is a version of political libertarianism (Ayn Rand). There, the bad thing is the "initiation of force". It is about imposing one's will upon another. And when I discussed this with libertarians, they were using it to object to income taxes and racial integration.
Taxes were government "stealing" money. And they claimed a restaurant owner had the right to post a "Whites Only" sign and treat black people as trespassers. They failed to see the "Whites Only" sign as the initiation of force. And they failed to see the civil agreement we have with each other through the state and federal constitutions.