(July 4, 2010 at 1:33 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: In a society where half of people believe that euthanasia is right and half believe it's wrong, who is right?
The side who has office. For example, take the healthcare bill that passed. It only passed because the majority of Congress is Democrat. If the majority of Congress was Republican, it wouldn't have passed.
(July 4, 2010 at 1:33 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: How do we decide what to do? You may be right that morality is nothing more than what society disapproves of, or approves of, but moral decision-making seems necessary to some extent.
I agree. There has to be some ground-work to work off of. Most people look to religious texts to do this. In most places gay marriage isn't legal because the Bible (or other religious book), says it's a sin (I think gay marriage is legal in 5 places out of 50 states, D.C., and U.S. territories).
And if they didn't look at religious texts, where would they look for ground-work? They would go off their own beliefs of right and wrong. Which goes back to what society does or does not approve of...
Eeyore Wrote:Thanks for noticing.