RE: Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?
May 8, 2016 at 9:55 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2016 at 9:55 am by Excited Penguin.)
(May 8, 2016 at 9:25 am)robvalue Wrote: They are a set of rules agreed by society, with punishments. That's all they are. It's not a statement of what is moral or immoral. If you think morality is dictated to everyone by the people making the laws, then your idea of morality is far removed from mine that were not talking about the same thing.
How could laws enforce what is moral, exactly? It doesn't distinguish between neutral and moral in any way. So at best you could say it's a way of punishing "immorality". If you're just saying what is immoral is what the law says is punishable then the word is redundant and useless. It's just another way of saying "punishable by society". But a society has many things which are generally consider immoral but which are not punished, or even moral things that are punished.
There are different moralities out there. It just so happens that the laws of our countries happen to reign supreme over us as our ultimate moral systems, whether we agree with them or like them or not. And that's because governments enforce them. And that's generally a good thing.
rob, I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but why are you being obtuse?
