RE: Why do we need morals?
May 12, 2013 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2013 at 11:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, so long as you're content to exist in a society without the concept as a teaching aide at the very least, then that's on you. I don't mind my neighbors teaching their kids not to steal or stab me or mine. I return the favor. Now, I'm willing to bet that most of my neighbor's kids (and mine) wouldn't steal or stab anyway, but it still offers reinforcement and a reasonable expectation of behavior from those around you (something that brings us a great deal of that all-important peace-of-mind). For a choice few that reinforcement might be whats standing between them and stealing and stabbing. For yet others still it's not enough- they steal or stab anyway.
I think of morality as crib notes for close habitation, personally. Anytime you cram more than one person in an even moderately confined space (the entire world is becoming such a place rapidly) conflict arises. Morality serves as a set of protocols to diffuse it-if nothing else. Now, we have more elaborate systems (like law) that serve the same purpose - but I'm not sure how practical waiting for a court date and paying for a lawyer would be every time one of my kids wanted to hit one of their siblings.
I think of morality as crib notes for close habitation, personally. Anytime you cram more than one person in an even moderately confined space (the entire world is becoming such a place rapidly) conflict arises. Morality serves as a set of protocols to diffuse it-if nothing else. Now, we have more elaborate systems (like law) that serve the same purpose - but I'm not sure how practical waiting for a court date and paying for a lawyer would be every time one of my kids wanted to hit one of their siblings.
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