RE: What is the source for our morals?
December 12, 2015 at 7:36 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2015 at 7:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 10, 2015 at 11:43 pm)Nestor Wrote: Well, if everyone had a different opinion on what they think is moral - and I don't think that's actually apparent, especially insofar as virtually every culture to some degree finds agreement on a range of moral axioms, such as the Golden RuleIDK......... a good ole boy in the american south believes in the golden rule..just that it doesn't apply to people with black skin. It would be disingenuous to say, then, that he believed even in the same "golden rule" as a black minister in detroit. Even apparent agreement masks a vast gulf of disparate personal moral value and directive statements. Saying that we find "some degree" of agreement explicitly but quietly invokes those disagreements-within-our-agreement.
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