RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
March 16, 2017 at 7:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2017 at 7:39 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 16, 2017 at 1:10 pm)Khemikal Wrote: How would you go about demonstrating that it was a fact?
I was just making a play on words, but the short answer is I wouldn't. Generally speaking, I don't really function on a moral world view, but rather on instinct. For example, I once challenged a Korean gangster who was beating a woman in an abandoned building. I ran in there like a fool, not because I weighed the possible outcomes against a moral ideal but pretty much "just because."
This represents most of my moral behavior-- I just do the things I do, and don't do the things I don't do, and I sometimes get involved in other people's behaviors and decisions just because it's in my nature to do so. There's very little consideration involved-- the only mental activity is my ability to symbolize the environment-- for example, to know that hearing a screaming woman in an abandoned building and an angry-voiced man means a particular scene is going down, without having to see it. The rest is pretty much autopilot.