Stephen Downes

I've made a similar argument in my own writings on ethics: "diversity in general is intrinsically valuable, and there's no good reason to treat moral diversity as an exception." People will have as different understanding than you or I on what's right and good, and overall (within reason) that's a good thing. Now the reasoning offered here is based on aesthetic premises: "a world where everyone liked, or loved, the same things would be a desperate, desolate world." Or as Eric Schwitzgebel summarizes, "An empty void has little or no value; a rich plurality of forms of existence has immense value, no further justification required." My own reasoning is more pragmatic: a world where we all valued the same things would be static and unchanging, and therefore, could never learn or adapt.