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anastasia Member (Idle past 5982 days) Posts: 1857 From: Bucks County, PA Joined: |
kuresu writes: somehow this doesn't seem quite right. we have a tendency to backslide, especially when you have extreme conservatism/nationalism and a culture/society that does not look favorably (either disliking or indifferent) on education. But of course we have a tendency to backslide! That is the nature of a dualist philosophy...human versus divine, good versus evil, whatever. We are sipposed to keep reminding ourselves not to backslide, and you know how it goes, landslide effect.
If we can slide back on technology, science, treatment of minorities, treatment of women, erode civil liberties, what makes you think that slavery won't happen again I don't know if it will happen again. I know that it will never again be ok even if does happen. I know that even if the last anti-slavery advocate passed away, it would still not be ok. It is an uphill battle, sliding back down a tunnel doesn't give us an excuse to forget about the light, and even if we DID forget about it, that doesn't mean it is not there.
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2542 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
it will never again be ok even if does happen by your moral code. your's. not the future's, not the past's. because these codes change, it may once again become "ok". your code will always condemn it. but your code will not always be. that's the point. what is moral changes--and what once was moral, now isn't, might be again. "Have the Courage to Know!" --Immanuel Kant " . . .and some nights I just pray to the god of sex and drugs and rock'n'roll"--meatloaf Want to help give back to the world community? Did you know that your computer can help? Join the newest TeamEvC Climate Modelling to help improve climate predictions for a better tomorrow.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Of course it's true. Your morality is relative, as is the morality of every person who has ever had a morality. There is no, and never has been, an objective morality. It's all subjective, and always has been.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Is it ever OK for one person to call another person a "nigger"?
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anastasia Member (Idle past 5982 days) Posts: 1857 From: Bucks County, PA Joined: |
nator writes: There is no, and never has been, an objective morality. It's all subjective, and always has been. Morality is objective. Morals are of course subject in how close they come to absolute morality.
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anastasia Member (Idle past 5982 days) Posts: 1857 From: Bucks County, PA Joined: |
nator writes: Is it ever OK for one person to call another person a "nigger"? I am really not sure what the purpose of this question is, or how it contributes to the topic.
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anastasia Member (Idle past 5982 days) Posts: 1857 From: Bucks County, PA Joined: |
kuresu writes: that's the point. what is moral changes--and what once was moral, now isn't, might be again. My point, is that we just don't know this. For example, there could be a god, or even just a natural hard-wired moral code that has nothing to do with god. If it turns out that some actions are 'really' wrong, and some are 'really' good, it would be accurate to say that slavery was always wrong, is now, and always will be. We just didn't KNOW it. Funny, tho. There is some saying; God was, is, and ever shall be...and an opposite saying about Satan's rule, that what once was, now is not, and again will be. This is not exact, and not something I want to dwell on, but it has something to do with the confusion and temporary state of the world compared to the natural order of God.
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Says who? Can you give an example of an "objective morality"?
quote: When you give us an example of an "objective moral", then we will be able to tell how close we are to it, right?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
It relates.
It has to do with if something that was considered moral, then later immoral, could ever return to moral again. So, is it OK for a person to call another person a "nigger"?
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: An unknowable objective morality is the same as a nonexistant objective morality.
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2542 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
My point, is that we just don't know this. For example, there could be a god, or even just a natural hard-wired moral code that has nothing to do with god. If it turns out that some actions are 'really' wrong, and some are 'really' good, it would be accurate to say that slavery was always wrong, is now, and always will be. We just didn't KNOW it. this is really irrelavent though. what we do know is that what we view as moral changes through history. that's what's important. I'm not holding out for an "absolute morality" to be found anytime soon--we've been searching for over 4,000 years. so far, we all have a different morality. "Have the Courage to Know!" --Immanuel Kant " . . .and some nights I just pray to the god of sex and drugs and rock'n'roll"--meatloaf Want to help give back to the world community? Did you know that your computer can help? Join the newest TeamEvC Climate Modelling to help improve climate predictions for a better tomorrow.
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anastasia Member (Idle past 5982 days) Posts: 1857 From: Bucks County, PA Joined: |
kuresu writes: this is really irrelavent though. what we do know is that what we view as moral changes through history. that's what's important. I'm not holding out for an "absolute morality" to be found anytime soon--we've been searching for over 4,000 years. so far, we all have a different morality. Yeah, I know. I think that there is an absolute morality, which is just my belief, kind of Platonic in nature, and loosely substantiated by the progress we seem to be making towards equality of others, etc. I think we now 'know' that doing good to others is moral. We quibble about why, when, how, and who...but you know the drill. If in the year 3054 we start thinking that being evil to others is moral, I still insist it wouldn't be.
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anastasia Member (Idle past 5982 days) Posts: 1857 From: Bucks County, PA Joined: |
nator writes: Can you give an example of an "objective morality"? Sure, my objective for instance is serving God. Can I tell how well I've done? Only in relation to what I know now, and how hard I have worked to get better. Edited by anastasia, : No reason given.
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anastasia Member (Idle past 5982 days) Posts: 1857 From: Bucks County, PA Joined: |
nator writes: It relates. But there is no point. What the heck is the point in bringing the 'n' word into a conversation where I have clearly said that I don't think certain things were ever moral or ever will be? Fine, tho, if you want an answer; if some group of Asians colonizes a corner of New York and suddenly takes a notion that they like the word, it will be very moral to call them that. Does that mean that morality changes? No! As long as some poeple don't like the word, it will be wrong to call them that, because the moral is to treat others well.
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Jaderis Member (Idle past 3454 days) Posts: 622 From: NY,NY Joined: |
I think we now 'know' that doing good to others is moral. We quibble about why, when, how, and who...but you know the drill. If in the year 3054 we start thinking that being evil to others is moral, I still insist it wouldn't be. Forget 3054...we still have yet to definitively define "evil" and some people still have difficulty defining "others." The subjectiveness of morality is shown with the necessity of these definitions. There may one day be an "absolute" morality meaning all the world agrees on the semantics (the why, when, how, who), but it will still be a subjective, not an objective, morality as it will have been the collective world society (meaning people) that established the moral structure.
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