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Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality?
(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.
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RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality? - by deleteduser12345 - February 19, 2017 at 12:19 pm
RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality? - by Astreja - February 19, 2017 at 12:14 am
RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality? - by brewer - February 20, 2017 at 10:28 pm
RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality? - by SteveII - February 22, 2017 at 11:01 am
RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality? - by SteveII - February 27, 2017 at 10:33 am
RE: Is it true that there is no absolute morality? - by bennyboy - March 16, 2017 at 7:35 pm

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