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Poll: What determines if an action is moral or immoral?
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The intention
17.65%
3 17.65%
The consequences
5.88%
1 5.88%
Other
76.47%
13 76.47%
Total 17 vote(s) 100%
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What does morality mean to you?
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RE: What does morality mean to you?
I chose "other", because for me, the intention and consequence don't determine the morality of the situation, rather the means of achieving the consequence, that is all the choices made in between the intention and leading to the consequence define the morality of the situation from my perspective.

The intention in itself is meaningless, and the consequence is not something we can always predict. However the choices and actions we take in order to bring our intentions to reality is something we do control and is what should constitute morality. Let's say I have the noble goal of saving humanity during a huge plague. This is my "intention". Now I can choose to save all the healthy people only, by killing off the afflicted part of the population, or I can try to first filter out the healthy population and then try to find a cure for the rest. In both scenarios, let's say everyone dies, because there was no cure. So this consequence stemmed from my good intention, but in the end it ended up being bad and out of my control. But what determined my morality in this scenario is the choices i made in dealing with the disease.

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What does morality mean to you? - by robvalue - September 16, 2015 at 3:56 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Ashground - September 16, 2015 at 4:31 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by ignoramus - September 16, 2015 at 4:36 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by MTL - September 16, 2015 at 10:39 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Catholic_Lady - September 16, 2015 at 11:00 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by robvalue - September 16, 2015 at 5:03 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Aoi Magi - September 16, 2015 at 6:11 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by robvalue - September 16, 2015 at 6:17 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Aoi Magi - September 16, 2015 at 7:30 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by robvalue - September 16, 2015 at 8:33 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Aoi Magi - September 16, 2015 at 9:26 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by MTL - September 16, 2015 at 10:47 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Kingpin - September 16, 2015 at 10:54 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Catholic_Lady - September 16, 2015 at 9:52 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by paulpablo - September 16, 2015 at 9:59 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by houseofcantor - September 16, 2015 at 11:37 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Captain Scarlet - September 16, 2015 at 2:22 pm
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by robvalue - September 18, 2015 at 3:28 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Pyrrho - September 18, 2015 at 9:26 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by robvalue - September 18, 2015 at 9:46 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Pyrrho - September 18, 2015 at 10:41 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by robvalue - September 20, 2015 at 4:50 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by bennyboy - September 20, 2015 at 6:51 am
RE: What does morality mean to you? - by Grandizer - September 23, 2015 at 6:56 am

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