RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
June 17, 2014 at 7:55 am
(June 16, 2014 at 7:13 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: You lost me, how did you get from “I do not want this done to me” to “therefore it is morally wrong”?That would be a combination of empathy and experience. Morals are a standard of behavior, and that would be one way of determining that something was wrong, or that it should not be part of my standard of behavior.
Statler Waldorf Wrote:So then the statement, “The entire society went along with the moral atrocities being committed” is impossible? Or even nonsensical?I think that's definitely possible. Moral standards of behavior may vary from region to region. As I understand it, slavery began to be seen as immoral in Europe years before the northern US states abolished it. And the south did not abolish it out of a belief that it was immoral, so much as they were forced to.
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