RE: How important are each of Haight's Five Foundations of Morality to you?
October 25, 2016 at 9:27 pm
(October 25, 2016 at 9:09 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: A A B B C for me.
Care/Harm: Really, on some level, isn't this the entire fucking point of morality?
Fairness/Reciprocity: Really, just the logical growth of Care/Harm.
InGroup/Loyalty: Okay in small doses, but can easily become a very dangerous thing indeed.
Authority: The way I see it, trusting in authorities is okay if you've scrutinised them beforehand and have found them reasonably trustworthy. That said, there are very few in power who actually are.
Purity: Is for drinking water, not people.
I have the same outlook on everything you just said except the ingroup loyalty.
I consider my ingroup to be my family and my loyalty pretty unshakeable these days, pretty much. The members of my family are the only people who could not talk to me for over a month then ask me to drive them somewhere for no petrol money or anything and I'd be very happy to do it.
And obviously most people in a family rely on some sort of ingroup loyalty along these sort of lines.
Just to clarify the fact I put a high importance on ingroup loyalty doesn't mean I easily associate with groups. It's actually the opposite, I really don't get supporting football teams or being proud of your nationality. But with the group I do identify as being a part of which is my family I have a fuck load of loyalty because my family have provided so much for me.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
