RE: Objective/subjective morals
February 6, 2018 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2018 at 1:53 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Actually the biggest teacher of morality for humans is probably video recordings.
Before video a word "massacre" didn't mean much to the people, only when they could see it they could understand what it means.
That's why after WW1 you had all those ant-war movies that it was actually pretty hard to convince young lads to go and fight in war, so much so that Hitler had to invent special kind of war called "Blitzkrieg" in which they could just do it all quickly without the turmoils of the trenches which they were very familiar with.
Then of course after WW2 there were all those videos of of holocaust victims and other people being killed.
And that's why you don't see videos from wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Niger and others on the news, or almost anywhere, so that people wouldn't protest when they see people there suffering, because it would strongly invoke empathy in people.
So this is how it actually works: people have empathy and other people make their cases to invoke that empathy (like slaves, women, gays etc.).
A really good demonstration of this is in the movie "Borat" when Borat goes to the comedy teacher and asks him "Can I make fun of retarded people" and the guy doesn't tell him "No, because god forbids it and you will burn in hell if you do." (which he doesn't forbid btw). He tells him that that is not OK because retarded people have families who suffer because of it. So you see he is playing on his inborn empathy.
Before video a word "massacre" didn't mean much to the people, only when they could see it they could understand what it means.
That's why after WW1 you had all those ant-war movies that it was actually pretty hard to convince young lads to go and fight in war, so much so that Hitler had to invent special kind of war called "Blitzkrieg" in which they could just do it all quickly without the turmoils of the trenches which they were very familiar with.
Then of course after WW2 there were all those videos of of holocaust victims and other people being killed.
And that's why you don't see videos from wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Niger and others on the news, or almost anywhere, so that people wouldn't protest when they see people there suffering, because it would strongly invoke empathy in people.
So this is how it actually works: people have empathy and other people make their cases to invoke that empathy (like slaves, women, gays etc.).
A really good demonstration of this is in the movie "Borat" when Borat goes to the comedy teacher and asks him "Can I make fun of retarded people" and the guy doesn't tell him "No, because god forbids it and you will burn in hell if you do." (which he doesn't forbid btw). He tells him that that is not OK because retarded people have families who suffer because of it. So you see he is playing on his inborn empathy.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
