(June 23, 2015 at 8:16 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I don’t agree that there is any universal consensus on anything being good or bad. Not even murder.(emphasis is mine)
What is murder? If it is merely ending another person’s life then it is obviously not universally accepted that this is wrong in any but a personal way. Most people believe it is wrong for someone else to take their life simply because they don’t want to die. And it was from this unwillingness to die that laws evolved in civilized societies making it wrong to murder. Still, even the most civilized societies will disagree about what constitutes murder when some redefinition proves convenient. Civilized societies, for the most part, value ownership because people have found that it is better to have things than to not have things, including life. Where there is no sense of ownership, there can be no theft. If a group of people are not given ownership of their own lives by society, then their lives cannot be stolen.
Most people on this planet cannot protect what they have so without law they have no way to keep what they have. Our laws evolved from the realization that without them, banditry and family feuds will rule the day and this makes life and commerce nearly impossible for all of us.
Many believe the doctors in Oregon and Washington are morally accountable as murderers if they help a terminal patient end their suffering, with said patient's consent. No, there is and can be no consensus on morality. It's all subjective.
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