RE: Morality without God
March 31, 2021 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2021 at 10:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Opinions probably vary on that - but I think that you could absolutely find people who would champion a system in which killing another person was always bad, yes.
There are all sorts of things that can strain our moral agency - and existential fear is certainly one of them - but here again..no shortage of people who would prefer to die than break some moral principle they hold. There are different ideas about excusable evils, and necessary evils....and in such a system - being excusable or necessary doesn't make it -not- evil. Hence the terms. What do you think? Is taking another persons life the kind of thing that you would always check for moral import?
There are all sorts of things that can strain our moral agency - and existential fear is certainly one of them - but here again..no shortage of people who would prefer to die than break some moral principle they hold. There are different ideas about excusable evils, and necessary evils....and in such a system - being excusable or necessary doesn't make it -not- evil. Hence the terms. What do you think? Is taking another persons life the kind of thing that you would always check for moral import?
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