(May 13, 2012 at 5:18 am)StatCrux Wrote:(May 13, 2012 at 5:06 am)Gooders1002 Wrote: Majority does not equal the right thing like: eat shit, 12trn flies can't be wrong. I am sad by this, but it is a minor set back.
That's interesting...how do you define "the right thing" regarding moral issues then? If not by majority of opinion? Are you saying that there is an objective "right thing" independent of majority opinion?
umm yep, look at time woman were fighting for there rights the majority were against it or Nazi Germany the majority of Germans were for the 3rd Reich.
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain