RE: Good and Evil
May 7, 2015 at 9:56 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2015 at 9:58 pm by bennyboy.)
(May 7, 2015 at 9:05 pm)Nestor Wrote:(May 7, 2015 at 7:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Okay, about Manson. He was right in that he had the capability of establishing a moral system for himself (or more amoral, it seems). He was even persuasive enough to convince a few people to accept him as god of THEIR worlds, as well. And this is not that different than how Nazi morality allowed the branding of gypseys as baby-eaters, or Jews as shifty, subhuman non-humans.I don't accept that morality is subjective, and that good and evil are arbitrary distinctions made on the whims of each individual's preferred object of gratification. I think there are things that actually are good and evil, regardless if everyone wakes up tomorrow and decides otherwise.
Whether there are others who have a better grip on morality is irrelevant if we accept that morality is subjective. I'm free to arbitrarily establish whatever ideas I like about good and evil. HOWEVER, and this is the big caveat, so is everyone else. Being god of my own existence won't be much use to me if I have a bullet hole through my head, or if I'm trapped in prison.
Really? Are they at least good and evil in context? Someone gave the example of antibiotics. A course of antibiotics will kill more organisms (like trillions I guess) than it will save. So are antibiotics good or evil?
By what standard, goal or principle would good and evil be decided, if not at the whim of a subjective agent?
