(July 26, 2013 at 6:16 am)genkaus Wrote:What is 'growth'? Is it fucking up the earth? Is it moving from a single story to a double story house just because you are a bachelor that deserves it? Is it an increase in the total annual animal kill? Is it the size of your dick?(July 26, 2013 at 5:53 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: It's indeed interconnected, and there might be some scientific reasoning behind it, but the thing is, morals are there to be a guideline to society, not to be another riddle in the heads of people, they are not there to cause confusion, but to be the basis of social harmony.
So whatever basis I choose for mine, the fact is, they're there, and they tell me things that I require to be in harmony with my fellow people here.
A parochial view of morality - as expected from someone not familiar with its philosophical basis.
Morals are there to be more than just guidelines for society to preserve social harmony - they are guidelines for individuals on how to live their life and are necessary for growth and development of society, even if it means sacrificing social harmony on occasion. If social harmony was the only purpose of morality, then any revolutionary who does anything to disturb the social order - which is necessary for its eventual growth - would be considered immoral.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
