Yes, indeed, if only someone would find some statistics backed up by a decent methodology. Too bad it will never happen in our lifetimes.
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Yes, indeed, if only someone would find some statistics backed up by a decent methodology. Too bad it will never happen in our lifetimes.
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At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Sorry gents, I only found reliable statistics for half of your fact-holes. I should be ashamed of myself.
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I think what Montemercy is getting at, and I'm not sure if he realises this or not, is that we live in an amoral society. More specifically, we live in a society where moral pleading is in-effective. One cannot make a case on moral grounds, only empirical ones. If you cannot measure it, it does not exist.
Morality is not measurable - ergo it is non-existent.
"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Not entirely convinced that the components are unmeasurable or non predictable either. Morality would be a social glue much like electrostatics are glue for molecules.
Take a look at the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule or many religious food restrictions. Look at the context of the society it was developed in and think like a game designer.
Some of these rules would have given those societies advantages over the local competitors who don't observe them, or implement their opposite.
Atoms can form all sorts of molecules. Some of which are more likely to form then others given the environment they form in, some will also be more robust.
Likewise humans can form all sorts of groups. The ethical rules that are formed are shaped by the environment and some are more generally applicable then others.
"Morality" maybe not; but parts of it would certainly admit to operational definitions. If you can define it in such a way as to quantify it, you can study it...whatever it is.
I believe there are studies on moral issues like greed, altruism, sacrifice, compassion...etc.
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