(March 13, 2013 at 10:31 am)Tranquility Wrote: Do you make moral statements and believe we have obligations or duties to behave a certain way?
In a manner of speaking. I don't believe in absolute obligations or in duties not resulting from our own choices.
(March 13, 2013 at 10:31 am)Tranquility Wrote: I can make ought assessments of my own behavior and that of others based on my judgement of what is the prudent thing to do or simply the things I want to do or to be. But it makes no sense to me to assert that there is a duty or obligation to do or not do this or that.
If you can justify your judgment and figure out how the basic principles apply in different cases, you wouldn't be simply asserting.