Multi-Million/Billionaires Owning Farms
Society & Culture1 min ago
Words from the cross by Christ. Can I add a tilt to them. They are supposed to be a fulfillment of the OT, but what if, when Christ uttered them from the cross, that they were more than that and utterly true, i.e. God the Father had momentarily forsaken his son ? Imagine for a moment that Christ in hanging there did indeed take all the badness of all time on his shoulders ? Can you imagine a pain any worse and a love any higher ? Just a thought, but by heck it sticks with me.
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Notice how all the things we consider 'wrong' are either counterproductive to the continued successful existence and procreation of our species, ill-fated for society as a whole, or ill-serving for the particular group we happen to be in.
If there was some 'absolute moral norm' it would defy all of these, pervasively, at least once.
That never happens. Why?
Hint: there is no absolute moral norm.
Blinkyblinky: Let's forget about religion for one moment and about what choices are beneficial to who.
The example I gave - torturing a fawn for amusement (although it doesn't need to be a cute little animal, it just makes for a more powrful image) - would it be wrong? Yes or no?
Of course the answer is yes. I don't need to talk about religion or benefit or choice or offence or revulsion or whatever to be able to give that answer - it's wrong because it's wrong.
Whether something is actually right or wrong, it�s wrong for you if you believe it�s wrong. This is where reason and choice comes into the picture. Ask yourself why this is wrong and you will be on your way to developing a moral code. Morality is not applicable to planets or moons or rocks or bananas or the colors of the rainbow. Morality is the collection of the rules we use to govern our choices and consequently our behaviors. Whether you have taken the time to define these rules for yourself or not you still choose/act according to what you believe is right or wrong based on your values.
By defining these rules we make them available for inspection and refinement and establish a basis for applying these rules to a wide range of applications.
If we lived in a world where everyone did this kind of thing all the time, then by your? arguments it would be ok - if morality is just linked to social norms, conventions, reason?, choice?, opinion, then the word "wrong" doesn't carry any more weight than the words "revolting", "offensive", "distasteful", "useless" etc etc. Surely that's not what we mean when we talk about right and wrong. Surely we are talking about someting more fundamental.
So let�s start by defining the fundamentals. What is socially acceptable in not necessarily what is moral. If this were the case morality would be (and to some extent is) in a state of chaos. What is considered right/wrong in one society is almost always considered wrong/right by another; (and this unfortunate confusion applies largely to organized religions as well). So the question remains what is morality, why and who decides?
El D, thanks for that �from Aristotle�, He certainly was a brilliant contributor to philosophy. Although there were some errors in his thinking, much of what he said those centuries ago still holds true today.
I want to make a clarification of something else I stated before; "science is not directly ascribed with determining ethics but I know of no reason why it shouldn�t at least be applicable"; this was meant only in the context in which it was used. The branch of philosophy that deals with morality is the science of ethics, (this is a distinct science, not to be confused with other sciences such as the science of physics or the science of mathematics).
I would also like to make it clear (to any who may have any doubt) that I am not an ethicist. As always, prove all things prior to your own acceptance and use so that it may serve you well!