Not A Poll: Does Motivation Affect Morality?

[Excited Penguin]

No.

Fair enough.  Let's try another, more severe example.  Kindness to animals is considered (generally) a moral 'good'.  One man rescues the dogs from a dog-fighting ring, because his motivation is to rehabilitate the dogs as pets or service animals.  Another man rescues the dogs from a dog-fighting ring because he knows he can sell them to other dog fighters for a great deal of money.  Is the rescuing of both groups of dogs morally equivalent?

Boru

That would depend on what actually happens to the dogs in question.

It was my understanding that people elect representatives who write and pass their laws, maybe it's different where you're from. The moral side of the road is that which the government decides that it is, whether left or right. Which one of the two it is is irrelevant and it's got more to do with historical accidents than with anything else.



Also, missing that comma makes you sound like an idiot.

Transforming a question into an exclamation does that as well.

Not capitalizing the beginning of a new sentence... You get it.

The government does not decide morality and if you think they do then you are the one who is an idiot.

Try telling that to a judge after you're charged with murder.

 I could give a fuck about my grammar, it's an internet forum not an English class. Also smart guy, a rhetorical question can end in an exclamation point or a question mark.

I didn't know that about rhetorical questions, thanks. My other two points stand, though.

Edit: Actually, I did know, now I can't understand why I forgot about it.

The moral side of the road is that which the government decides that it is, whether left or right.

So, if a government passes allowing the sexual assault of children, child rape become a moral act?

Boru

No.