RE: On Moral Authorities
November 18, 2016 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2016 at 10:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I actually don't think it's about defining anything, as such. People have and leverage morality without ever having an argument or a debate. Sure, -in- a debate it's important, but our lives aren't debates and I don't go through a complicated internal debating process everytime I make a moral consideration. Sure there are edge situations that we wring our hands about, considering the balance of competing moral imperatives...but even there, we aren't defining those things, for the most part they come pre-packaged. I;d say that there is a core to all of the varying moral systems and pre-packaged assumptions that is so ubiquitous as to be categorical. That no matter what our moral considerations and definitions may be, we are attempting to do or avoid some common thing in all of it. We do the good, we avoid the bad, or, at least...we try...lol, no matter what we put in either category.
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