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Also, the concept of "Fuck it, if you want to do it then do it!" is fucking stupid.
Um, no. It's literally the basis of morality. It's your body, and if you want to improve or destroy it in any way, that's your choice.
the basis of morality is stupid, is the point

if i had it my way, no one would ever be able to make bad choices
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That's evil. You have no right to make that decision for someone else, period. We all have our time on this earth, and you can't tell someone they have to change the way they're living their life if they're only hurting themselves. Again, that would be an extremely immoral thing to impose and enforce.


 
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That's evil.
Bad choices are evil.

Stopping bad choices literally cannot be evil. At all.
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Also, the concept of "Fuck it, if you want to do it then do it!" is fucking stupid.
Um, no. It's literally the basis of morality. It's your body, and if you want to improve or destroy it in any way, that's your choice.
the basis of morality is stupid, is the point

if i had it my way, no one would ever be able to make bad choices
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That's evil. You have no right to make that decision for someone else, period. We all have our time on this earth, and you can't tell someone they have to change the way they're living their life if they're only hurting themselves. Again, that would be an extremely immoral thing to impose and enforce.

One could also say it's evil to allow someone to destroy their body and life, on the basis of "I can do what I want."



 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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That's evil.
Bad choices are evil.
Uh, no. What the fuck?

Morality is tied solely to our interactions with other humans and animals. If you're only affecting yourself, you can't be doing anything good or bad.

With your logic, someone who goes out and solely lifts weights every day and eventually gets really ripped is doing a morally good act. When really, there's no morality at all involved with self-destructive or self-improving acts.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Also, the concept of "Fuck it, if you want to do it then do it!" is fucking stupid.
Um, no. It's literally the basis of morality. It's your body, and if you want to improve or destroy it in any way, that's your choice.
the basis of morality is stupid, is the point

if i had it my way, no one would ever be able to make bad choices
ever
That's evil. You have no right to make that decision for someone else, period. We all have our time on this earth, and you can't tell someone they have to change the way they're living their life if they're only hurting themselves. Again, that would be an extremely immoral thing to impose and enforce.

One could also say it's evil to allow someone to destroy their body and life, on the basis of "I can do what I want."
One would be wrong. It's immoral to stop a consenting individual from doing anything to his own body. It's just your emotions that are blinding you here. No one has a say in what happens to your body but you.


 
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If you're only affecting yourself, you can't be doing anything good or bad.
i might have thought this way when i was ten

It's just your emotions that are blinding you here.
i could say the exact same thing to you


 
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Also, the concept of "Fuck it, if you want to do it then do it!" is fucking stupid.
Um, no. It's literally the basis of morality. It's your body, and if you want to improve or destroy it in any way, that's your choice.
the basis of morality is stupid, is the point

if i had it my way, no one would ever be able to make bad choices
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That's evil. You have no right to make that decision for someone else, period. We all have our time on this earth, and you can't tell someone they have to change the way they're living their life if they're only hurting themselves. Again, that would be an extremely immoral thing to impose and enforce.

One could also say it's evil to allow someone to destroy their body and life, on the basis of "I can do what I want."
One would be wrong. It's immoral to stop a consenting individual from doing anything to his own body. It's just your emotions that are blinding you here. No one has a say in what happens to your body but you.

Morality, and immorality, are both subjective. What is moral is not, for the most part, concrete.



 
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Morality, and immorality, are both subjective. What is moral is not, for the most part, concrete.
this is wrong, though


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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If you're only affecting yourself, you can't be doing anything good or bad.
i might have thought this way when i was ten

It's just your emotions that are blinding you here.
i could say the exact same thing to you
You're not even arguing at this point, you're just insisting how above it all you are

I'm done until you actually decide you want to have a conversation

Consent is the root of all morality.


 
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Morality, and immorality, are both subjective. What is moral is not, for the most part, concrete.
this is wrong, though

Except it isn't. Morality, what we consider to be moral, is entirely a human concept. Go out into the wilderness of, say, the rainforest. Or attempt to test it in a scientific lab. You aren't going to get any results, because outside of our species, it does not exist.

Take killings for example. We all preach that killing should be wrong - but killing in war is apparently okay to some, while to others it isn't. What about killing for self defense? Is that morally acceptable, when you are still taking another life?


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
——Carmen
Also, the concept of "Fuck it, if you want to do it then do it!" is fucking stupid.
Um, no. It's literally the basis of morality. It's your body, and if you want to improve or destroy it in any way, that's your choice.
the basis of morality is stupid, is the point

if i had it my way, no one would ever be able to make bad choices
ever
That's evil. You have no right to make that decision for someone else, period. We all have our time on this earth, and you can't tell someone they have to change the way they're living their life if they're only hurting themselves. Again, that would be an extremely immoral thing to impose and enforce.

One could also say it's evil to allow someone to destroy their body and life, on the basis of "I can do what I want."
One would be wrong. It's immoral to stop a consenting individual from doing anything to his own body. It's just your emotions that are blinding you here. No one has a say in what happens to your body but you.

Morality, and immorality, are both subjective. What is moral is not, for the most part, concrete.
Wrong. As long as we have feeling beings, be it animals or humans, there's objective morality. Things can be good, which helps others, or things can be bad, which hurts others. Self-actions literally can't be moral or immoral.


 
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Consent is the root of all morality.
i never disagreed with this

the point at which we disagree is when consent can be broken
which it can--if you have a 100% guaranteed net positive


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Consent is the root of all morality.
i never disagreed with this

the point at which we disagree is when consent can be broken
which it can--if you have a 100% guaranteed net positive
The breaking of consent in and of itself is what's evil.


 
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Take killings for example. We all preach that killing should be wrong - but killing in war is apparently okay to some, while to others it isn't. What about killing for self defense? Is that morally acceptable, when you are still taking another life?
the fact that we can debate moral principles does not make it subjective

we debate scientific principles ALL the fucking time
i guess science is subjective now


 
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The breaking of consent in and of itself is what's evil.
thank you for uselessly repeating yourself instead of arguing against my point

consent can be broken if there is a 100% guaranteed chance of a net positive occurring


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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thank you for uselessly repeating yourself instead of arguing against my point
I have to repeat myself because that's my position.

consent can be broken if there is a 100% guaranteed chance of a net positive occurring
This is yours. I disagree completely. All you did was state your position without arguing anything, so I did the same.
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Take killings for example. We all preach that killing should be wrong - but killing in war is apparently okay to some, while to others it isn't. What about killing for self defense? Is that morally acceptable, when you are still taking another life?
the fact that we can debate moral principles does not make it subjective

we debate scientific principles ALL the fucking time
i guess science is subjective now

Tell me - if a lion kills a zebra, is the lion morally right? Do any species, outside of humans, have morals to even live by?


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I thought this thread was about FGM.


 
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I disagree completely.
this is not an counter-argument

are you unable to make a some sort of counter-argument

Tell me - if a lion kills a zebra, is the lion morally right? Do any species, outside of humans, have morals to even live by?
they lack the ability to reason, so obviously not


 
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All you did was state your position without arguing anything, so I did the same.
the argument is in the position itself

surprise birthday parties are non-consensual, but nobody gets all fucked about surprise birthday parties, because they tend to be a very fun and happy experience--it's a net positive


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
—Judge Aaron Satie
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I disagree completely.
this is not an counter-argument

are you unable to make a some sort of counter-argument
You need to have an argument to have a counterargument. All you did was state your position. Let me spell it out for you.

Consent is the basis of morality.
Consent is inherently valuable.
Acts against others break consent.
Acts against yourself don't.
Stopping someone from performing an act that doesn't break consent is breaking consent.
Breaking consent is immoral.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Morality, what we consider to be moral, is entirely a human concept.
So is the economy, it doesn't make economics subjective.

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but killing in war is apparently okay to some, while to others it isn't.
And some people don't believe in evolution.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
because outside of our species, it does not exist.
This is also wrong; chimps have been observed to have some kind of moral compass.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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All you did was state your position without arguing anything, so I did the same.
the argument is in the position itself

surprise birthday parties are non-consensual, but nobody gets all fucked about surprise birthday parties, because they tend to be a very fun and happy experience--it's a net positive
Surprise birthday parties are a light example. If someone makes it known they don't want them, but it still happens, that's definitely immoral.

In that way, it's more of an implied consent.


 
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Tell me - if a lion kills a zebra, is the lion morally right? Do any species, outside of humans, have morals to even live by?
they lack the ability to reason, so obviously not

So, humans are the only species that have morals?

Then where does this idea that what we believe as morals is absolutely correct? Absolutes only should occur in fields such as science - you can test it, prove it, and repeat the scenarios again and again until it's become a fact.

Morals are not subjective. What people in western culture believe (Such as democracy) is different than what people in African or East Asian cultures believe. Some people believe that killing is never allowed, while others believe it should only be in war or self defense. The scenario's go on and on - homosexuality, drug use, abortions, finances, etc.

Who is right in any of these scenarios? Can you test them in a scientific lab to say "Person A's morals are the correct ones?"


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Surprise birthday parties are a light example. If someone makes it known they don't want them, but it still happens, that's definitely immoral.

In that way, it's more of an implied consent.
Is pulling a depressed person back from the ledge just before they jump immoral?


 
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Consent is the basis of morality.
Consent is inherently valuable.
Acts against others break consent.
Acts against yourself don't.
Stopping someone from performing an act that doesn't break consent is breaking consent.
Breaking consent is immoral.
surprise birthday parties are now evil, under this logic


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Can you test them in a scientific lab to say "Person A's morals are the correct ones?"
Yes, if you identify the best basis for morality.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Surprise birthday parties are a light example. If someone makes it known they don't want them, but it still happens, that's definitely immoral.

In that way, it's more of an implied consent.
Is pulling a depressed person back from the ledge just before they jump immoral?
Of course. You have no right to stop them.


 
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This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
Surprise birthday parties are a light example. If someone makes it known they don't want them, but it still happens, that's definitely immoral.

In that way, it's more of an implied consent.
Is pulling a depressed person back from the ledge just before they jump immoral?
Of course. You have no right to stop them.
And this is why your form of morality is the most retarded fucking thing I've ever come across. It's entirely possible for people to be incorrect about what would be in their own interests--suicide being perhaps the most important example.