Morality

[Kadagar_AV]

How do you teach morality?

Easy:
* Don't do to others what you wouldnt like people to do to you.
* Do to others what you would want them to do to you...

it's quite simple, really.

[Beskar]

Easy:
* Don't do to others what you wouldnt like people to do to you.
* Do to others what you would want them to do to you...

it's quite simple, really.

Downside is, someone in the second category forget about the first and it can really bite back hard.

[Kadagar_AV]

Downside is, someone in the second category forget about the first and it can really bite back hard.

That's why we invented absolutely awesome stuff like laws, state-monopoly-violence and prisons...

Also the international court of Haag, it's only that scumbag nations don't adhere to it. With scumbag nations I mean USA, Israel, and other warmongering nations that doesn't seem to make even a decade without war.

Silly scumbag nations.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Easy:
* Don't do to others what you wouldnt like people to do to you.
* Do to others what you would want them to do to you...

it's quite simple, really.

This is terrible logic. What if I am really into public flogging........

[Pannonian]

This is terrible logic. What if I am really into public flogging........

Then you'll have to pay for the service like everyone else. Stilettos and leather gear are extra.

[Vincent Butler]

Teaching morality requires absolutes. For me, that is the Bible. A lot of those things, do unto others as you would have done to you, and such like, are biblical principals. The problem is, with the evolutionary rotgut pervading society, there are no absolutes. It is taught that man is just an animal. Well, no wonder we see school shootings. It shows that people understand what they have been taught. And so what? If evolution is true, then what is wrong with shooting somebody on a whim? Evolution is based on survival of the fittest. There are no true rights in an evolutionary society, for there is no higher power to bestow those rights.

[HoreTore]

Teaching morality requires absolutes.

Nonsense.

[Vincent Butler]

Then what makes wrong wrong, and what makes right right? If I decide that I want to commit some horrible crime, who is to say what I am doing is wrong? You? Somebody else? What makes that other person the authority to say what is right? They are human, just like me. For true rights, you need somebody above the human realm, who tells us what is right. That is God. Why does every society, no matter how primitive, worship something? Worship is ingrained in us as humans.

[HoreTore]

Then what makes wrong wrong, and what makes right right?

Lrn2philosophy.

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