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Morality: Where do you get yours?
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RE: Morality: Where do you get yours?
(May 14, 2012 at 11:31 am)genkaus Wrote: This seems a little inspired by what I wrote about morality. Is it?
Started writing this before I read your post, but then altered it to incorporate points made by you. You deserved a hat-tip. Sorry.

If I'm not mistaken your approach seems to build on Ayn Rand's objectivism and I see room for much common ground here, being a libertarian myself.



(May 11, 2012 at 1:29 pm)genkaus Wrote: This would be your greatest challenge. A universally accepted value would be accepted by every person who ever lived and would ever live. There is no known value that fills the criteria. One way to get around it is presenting a value that should be accepted by everyone and proving that those who don't are being irrational.
I’ve always felt that Aristotle was onto something with his idea that happiness is the good that all desire, although as I remember he came to that conclusion empirically. I strongly suspect that it comes down to the choice: rejecting or affirming the very idea of morality and tacitly accepting the implications of that choice.
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Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Creed of Heresy - May 10, 2012 at 7:37 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Tiberius - May 10, 2012 at 8:06 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Tiberius - May 10, 2012 at 8:12 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by NoMoreFaith - May 10, 2012 at 9:52 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Tiberius - May 10, 2012 at 10:27 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by NoMoreFaith - May 10, 2012 at 10:59 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by fuckass365 - May 10, 2012 at 8:31 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by fuckass365 - May 10, 2012 at 8:42 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 10, 2012 at 10:54 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 11, 2012 at 12:40 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by simplexity - May 11, 2012 at 2:02 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 11, 2012 at 7:21 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Violet - May 10, 2012 at 11:27 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Violet - May 10, 2012 at 11:34 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Cinjin - May 10, 2012 at 11:39 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Xyster - May 11, 2012 at 4:33 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 11, 2012 at 10:44 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 12, 2012 at 6:57 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Gooders1002 - May 11, 2012 at 10:29 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 11, 2012 at 1:29 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Ace Otana - May 11, 2012 at 1:18 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 11, 2012 at 2:17 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Whateverist - May 12, 2012 at 11:40 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Reforged - May 11, 2012 at 2:28 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 12, 2012 at 7:40 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 12, 2012 at 9:51 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 12, 2012 at 12:22 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 12, 2012 at 6:49 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by MysticKnight - May 14, 2012 at 10:34 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 14, 2012 at 11:30 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by MysticKnight - May 14, 2012 at 11:06 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by MysticKnight - May 14, 2012 at 11:31 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 14, 2012 at 11:31 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Neo-Scholastic - May 14, 2012 at 12:04 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 14, 2012 at 2:17 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Angrboda - May 14, 2012 at 11:04 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Tempus - May 17, 2012 at 12:19 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by liam - May 17, 2012 at 2:59 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 17, 2012 at 3:52 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by liam - May 17, 2012 at 4:02 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 17, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Morality: Where do you get yours? - by el_presidente - May 18, 2012 at 12:03 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by liam - May 18, 2012 at 5:01 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Tempus - May 18, 2012 at 5:56 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 18, 2012 at 6:41 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by NoahsFarce - May 19, 2012 at 1:08 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by NoMoreFaith - May 19, 2012 at 7:10 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Angrboda - May 19, 2012 at 10:46 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by NoahsFarce - May 22, 2012 at 12:51 pm
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by liam - May 19, 2012 at 6:46 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Jinkies - May 19, 2012 at 7:22 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by liam - May 19, 2012 at 7:56 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by liam - May 19, 2012 at 11:01 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by Polaris - May 19, 2012 at 11:28 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by elunico13 - May 28, 2012 at 12:37 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 28, 2012 at 2:18 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by elunico13 - May 28, 2012 at 2:27 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by genkaus - May 28, 2012 at 3:16 am
RE: Morality: Where do you get yours? - by KichigaiNeko - May 28, 2012 at 11:22 am

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