(December 5, 2017 at 5:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Wally, I have a question. What is your opinion on what humanity's moral standards should be based on? Or do you think there shouldn't be any standards? I am curious to hear your personal philosophy on morals and how you think they should be applied, what they should be based on, etc.
Morality is a mixture of empathy, i.e. I can imagine myself in that position, which could be ascribed to our prolonged nurturing of children and experience, there is also that as a social creature we conform to societies values.
Interestingly those values change with different cultures and over time so the last thing morals could be is fixed from some morality police on high.
Morality is subjective.
In the middle east and certain parts of the US it is not considered evil to persecute people of different sexual orientation.
In Africa they still kill kids as witches and there are other practices too odious to go into that are considered moral in that culture.
The Aztecs murdered hundreds of thousands of people to appease gods, that was moral to them.
Then you have honour killings and honour rapes all part of cultures that think that that is a ok.
So what should morals be based on?
On what I think is right obviously the same thing that everybody else thinks.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.