Your morals =/= fact

Mega Sceptile · September 05, 2014, 09:53:36 AM

No matter what you think, and no matter the subject, morality, and anything you deem as "wrong", is not objectively wrong.

ITT: Discuss your own morals, and tell us the opinions that have built that moral basis.

cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · September 05, 2014, 10:06:18 AM

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ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · September 05, 2014, 11:07:38 AM

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Aether · September 05, 2014, 11:37:57 AM

My morality, in essence, as conveyed by Siddhārtha Gautama:

"Do not go by (act according to) reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are unskillful; these qualities are blameworthy; these qualities are criticized by the wise; these qualities, when adopted and carried out, lead to harm and to suffering' then you should abandon them."

Super Irish · September 05, 2014, 11:43:14 AM

Why that may be the case for individuals, but I could argue that laws are based off what the majority think are "wrong".

Granted, wrong and right are completely made up things we as a species have created to dictate our lives on a daily basis, but seeing as some things people do lands them in jail has to mean morality counts for something.

Same as votes. One means nothing, but en-masse they count.

Anywho, my morals are based my experiences of life so far. (Mostly, that I like free things especially when it's hard to enforce law abiding, and that being nicer to people is a lot easier to do than being an asshole. But that's me.)

Dustin · September 05, 2014, 12:09:10 PM

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More Than Mortal · September 05, 2014, 12:32:07 PM

Quote from: Le Dustin on September 05, 2014, 12:09:10 PM

Yeah I know, trust me. Culturally however, you need them or else we'd all be robots. It's probably why most people are hardwired to feel emotion so they can never become too logical and end up saying fuck it all and their life.

This.

The people who lose their moral intuitions make terrible decisions on the whole, and the people who don't have moral intuitions are psychopathic.