(November 6, 2018 at 4:51 am)bennyboy Wrote: ...
So either wrongness is not a property of rape
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Correct. Wrongness is not a property of rape. It's a threshold; an alert.
(November 6, 2018 at 4:51 am)bennyboy Wrote: ...
or cultural bias prevents people from accessing their sense of wrongness.
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Almost. Although 'reduce' is more accurate than 'prevent' and not 'access' but 'override'.
Culture is simply the aggregate of group behaviour.
Bias (and weightings) come in the form of e.g.:
- heritage, prejudices, alliances, allegiances, affinities, superstitions that influence individual ethics and
- markets, politics, economics, traditions, technology, ecology, legals, military situations that influence group (organisational) ethics.
Together they (individual and group ethics) form the input (as inhibitions, enablers and controls) to individual behaviour.
Thus is would be correct to state that the 'group ethics' part of the equation might override one's individual ethics. Peer-pressure is a good example of this. Similarly, drugs (e.g. alcohol) can reduce the inhibitions / impair the controls which can override wrong/right evaluation.
In other words, the response to a chemical alert can be "ignore it".
(November 6, 2018 at 4:51 am)bennyboy Wrote: ...
I think the former is infinitely more likely-- that wrongness is neither a thing, nor a property of any thing.
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If anything it's a property of a social contract.
(November 6, 2018 at 4:51 am)bennyboy Wrote: ...
Instead, it's one of the human emotions
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Nope. What we experience and label as 'emotions' are representations of combinations of chemical stimuli. Wrongness or rightness are labels / representations of cognitive dissonance and cognitive ease respectively.
(November 6, 2018 at 4:51 am)bennyboy Wrote: ...
no less familiar and no better understood than love or a sense of beauty.
What's not to understand about love or elation or joy?
The PURPOSE of life is to replicate our DNA ................. (from Darwin)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)