What is Morality

[bmolsson]

Moral is something we want everyone else to have......

[Geoffrey S]

Morals are personal, something a state should not interfere with unless they become damaging to others. It's easy to state that but just how far can you go? If taken too far it means problems don't get tackled at the source, yet if it's not seen that way minority views get suppressed by a majority on hazy issues such as drug use. As far as I'm concerned just learn to accept that some people don't have the same views as you, and learn to live with it.

bmolsson: nice one.

[Sjakihata]

Moral is something we want everyone else to have......

untrue

[Sjakihata]

clarification:

morality is something we want to have ourselves - is more true.

because morality ultimately lead to the good and happy life, so why dont we want, ourselves instead of others, to lead the happy life?

[Soulforged]

Seemed like a fair assessment to me. Consider: Bush promotes "Morality" Bush also dodged the draft (in a manner of speaking), did drugs in his youth, and makes millions off the backs of the poor, while promoting the continued making of millions off the backs of the poor by other people.

All politicians who proclaim morality have similar holes in their logic.

Morality is out of politics. Politics looks for the improvement of the society not of the self. Machiavelli putted it very clear, nothing has changed from those moments. Weber confirmed it.