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Conventionalism is Dead - Society does NOT determine what is moral.

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02-16-2007 10:40 PM 		Reply to: Message 9 by joshua221
02-16-2007 10:28 PM

prophex
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As are the people in this allegory of Plato's chained to a wall, so are those in these societies who do not know true morality, only a distortion and falsity of it.
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Please explain to me the correct moral response to the following exercise.
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You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don't he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don't have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?
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Take your time and think hard.
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02-16-2007 11:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 21 by joshua221
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prophex
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I choose to do nothing.
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And if I were to choose to sacrifice my son in order to allow for the least number of deaths and to allow at least one to live is my decision moral and yours not since you thereby allow for 2 deaths to occur?
After you answer that then please explain the reason you use and how is it that we can arrive at 2 different decisions and still square it with the statement from the OP here.
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We are born with the ability to know what is right
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02-16-2007 11:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 45 by joshua221
02-16-2007 11:32 PM

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So then what do you consider to be moral exactly?
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