Morality Decreasing With Time?

Because those two are irrelevant.The questions I asked are simple. The are just yes/no questions.You can only point to changes in morality over time as I have pointed out in this thread. At the time of the Bible, slavery was considered moral, and that view continued well into the 19^th. Century. The same factors are shown in each of the examples I posted.The measurement can only be made by those responding at this moment. The readers of this thread, based on their understanding of morality as it stands today, will answer each of those questions.The audience then will decide whether the moral standard in effect today has increased or decreased relative to morality at some other era and culture.Nemesis_Juggernaut loves to bring in irrelevancies when faced with a really simple position or question. That has been the tactic of choice throughout this thread and others. The issues you bring up are typical.First, "what the increase or decrease is relative to".Throughout the thread it has been pointed out that "relative" refers to what was considered moral in the past but immoral today.The size of the poll is also irrelevant since it is limited to those reading and responding in this thread. Further all I said was that NJ agreed that morality is increasing. Since my position is only related to what NJ said, the size of the poll has NOTHING to do with the position.The questions I asked were answered by Nemesis. In each case he indicated that he thought the current position was more moral than the position held in the past.Further there have been assertions that there is some absolute morality, yet NO ONE has been able to provide an example of that which held up to examination.Nemesis is simply playing moving goal posts. Edited by jar, : appalin spallin

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

No. Not limited to just the US. And if someone wants, they could apply the particular questions to any other era or culture and the answer will depend on how YOU judge that Morality relative to YOUR moral standard. We can ONLY judge based on our standards. There may well absolutes, who knows, even absolute morals, but so far no one has presented one. Of course it was moral, given the morals at the time. No one at the time questioned the moral rights of a Prince, in fact it was called "Divine Right of Kings".The facts are that what we consider moral today is far different that what was considered moral in the past. The odds are that in the future much that we consider moral will be seen as immoral.Guess what?Folks at that time will also say that morality has increased.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Of course we do and that too has been covered in this thread. The right is based on consensus of the culture and era.As to the rest of your post it is either answered by what I just said or it refers to Laws which have NOTHING to do with morals. That too has been covered in this thread.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Whatever, nemesis_juggernaut.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

We can based on our current moral standards. Real simple. Bullshitski. I am simply asking about our moral standard today. I have also said that in the future it is likely others will look at us and say that we are immoral based on their standard at the time.Please stop misrepresenting what I say. Justice, like Law is yet another topic. Please stop moving the goal posts. Yes, some of you have asserted that. But you have NEVER presented an example of that Moral Absolute that stands up to examination.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

We get the right by Being a community, a culture. Great question. Ask those who advocate such practices. Law, Justice and Morality are NOT the same thing. We are not discussing either Law or Justice in this thread but rather Morality and whether or not morality is decreasing over time.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Almost.Morality, like knowledge, is cumulative and evolves over time. Societies and cultures learn morals; morals are not something given to them or forced upon them.It is not a matter of liking what we consider moral today, in fact we may well dislike the restraints imposed by the current morality, but we abide by them.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion