(November 15, 2013 at 12:23 am)wallym Wrote: Creating a morality isn't an issue. It's creating a morality that applies to others.
For example: A ruthless dictator is having your fingernails pulled out. You say "I'm having a negative pain reaction, therefore this is bad!" To which he says, "Odd, I don't feel a thing."
You get around this by speaking as "we" like all humans are on the some big team. But I think history shows that's quite the stretch.
What I mean is, we all experience pain the same way; we don't want it to happen to us, and therefore we tend to band into groups to form social contracts about that sort of thing.
Besides, just because someone can do a thing, doesn't mean the morality of it doesn't apply to them; I'd suggest that, in your analogy above, the vast majority of people would still find the dictator's actions to be immoral. All you're really saying is that people can break social contracts and do immoral things; yes, and that would be true no matter how our morals are derived.
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