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Why do we need morals?

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Why do we need morals?
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RE: Why do we need morals?
May 28, 2013 at 10:16 pm
everything is opinion. the fact that morals exist is opinion.
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RE: Why do we need morals?
May 29, 2013 at 2:44 am

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The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

— Aristotle
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RE: Why do we need morals?
May 31, 2013 at 9:11 am (This post was last modified: May 31, 2013 at 9:11 am by The Reality Salesman01.)
(May 28, 2013 at 10:16 pm)dazzn Wrote: everything is opinion. the fact that morals exist is opinion.


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RE: Why do we need morals?
June 1, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Meh, people aren't always rational. and?
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RE: Why do we need morals?
June 1, 2013 at 12:40 pm (This post was last modified: June 1, 2013 at 12:42 pm by Something completely different.)
(June 1, 2013 at 12:34 pm)dazzn Wrote: Meh, people aren't always rational. and?

What`s with the "Meh" in the beginning of every single one of your sentences?

Havent you brought your "girlfriend" back to the stables yet!?
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RE: Why do we need morals?
June 1, 2013 at 2:12 pm
@dazzn: It's not a question of people always being rational. Rather, it's more that we've yet to see any two consecutive posts from you that would count as rational at all. In that context, I'm afraid you'll have to forgive any confusion on our part, born from the very real fact that many of us haven't a clue what you're trying to say half the time.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Why do we need morals?
June 1, 2013 at 11:35 pm (This post was last modified: June 1, 2013 at 11:42 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(June 1, 2013 at 12:34 pm)dazzn Wrote: Meh, people aren't always rational. and?

...AND, some people, namely you, you are a dumb-ass.
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RE: Why do we need morals?
November 13, 2014 at 5:26 am
(May 12, 2013 at 11:51 am)Slumberjack Wrote: [quote='dazzn' pid='444013' dateline='1368373328']
I think that morality is a spent concept.
Why?
Quote:Labelling things as "moral" or "immoral" at a given time is inane. You tell me and everybody why we need this notion of "morality"?
Why is labelling things with moral value inane? Do you find labelling things generally to be inane or is your issue particularly with assignment of moral value? If so what is your objection?
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There is no finite morality. Morality evolves. For instance, in the Bible "wicked" did not mean evil. It refered to someone who didn't follow the Torah. Do you follow the Torah? Nor do you follow many of the moral teachings that have been abandoned. There is no moral teaching in Christianity that didn't evolve from somewhere else.
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RE: Why do we need morals?
November 14, 2014 at 1:54 pm
Please don't necropost.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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