(December 18, 2015 at 10:46 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: That's a disgusting thought and frankly you should be ashamed for having it. Your mates seem like sociopaths. I get that this was meant more like a theoretical discussion about morality, but even so, unless something is very wrong with you, you should be naturally repulsed at the thought of raping and killing someone. If you don't see it that way, you should either consult a psychiatrist or try and understand at an intellectual level why we couldn't live in a world where everybody thought it was okay to do that.
Naturally repulsed? I think that's a key component to 'morality.' We are taught to the point of brainwashing from the time we are born and throughout our lives that things are good and evil, and it's effective as hell. That makes it easier for half-baked reasoning like "what if everybody thought it was okay" as a reason for an individual not to do something.
But to the OP, you don't rape and murder, because you don't want to go to jail. The secondary reason I'd say, is that the benefits of raping and murdering are so minor compared to the cost to the other person in most cases, that it seems unnecessary. The personal sacrifice for most that goes into not raping and murdering is super duper tiny, to the point of insignificant.
For those to which that doesn't apply, they're going to have at it. And we just have to settle for sticking them in jail for long periods of time.
