RE: Morality without God
March 31, 2021 at 10:12 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2021 at 10:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There's no shortage of moral systems in which the killing of another person for any reason is at it's very base a Bad Thing™. The least desired outcome. The worst and final consequence.
In those cases, people sometimes think that circumstances dictate whether a person deserves more or less moral condemnation for having done it, but it's generally not suggested or implied that killing another person can ever be a good thing.
What do you think? Do you think that our intuitions in this regard might have something meaningful and informative to say about the nature of killing another person in the context of ethics or moral imperatives? Additionally, when you point out examples like this, is this supposed to be a problem for a moral system (any example, any system) or for people consistently following one, or.....? If some moral system held that, yes - you killing the guy who was trying to kill you was a bad thing, what would the issue be?
In those cases, people sometimes think that circumstances dictate whether a person deserves more or less moral condemnation for having done it, but it's generally not suggested or implied that killing another person can ever be a good thing.
What do you think? Do you think that our intuitions in this regard might have something meaningful and informative to say about the nature of killing another person in the context of ethics or moral imperatives? Additionally, when you point out examples like this, is this supposed to be a problem for a moral system (any example, any system) or for people consistently following one, or.....? If some moral system held that, yes - you killing the guy who was trying to kill you was a bad thing, what would the issue be?
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