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02-24-2013, 04:03 PM | #111 (permalink) |
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The idea is that there's no finite good guys or bad guys, but there's a dividing line in every person that can be crossed from good to bad (or vice versa, I suppose) given the right situation/authority.
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02-24-2013, 07:33 PM | #116 (permalink) |
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I feel like if the consequences were brought into the situation then people might not be as eager to get involved. It's not realistic to assume that you won't be held accountable for committing murder. That's not to say you will be caught but we are hardly experts at hiding evidence.
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02-25-2013, 10:01 AM | #117 (permalink) |
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I do find it amusing, a little insulting that some people here seem to think it's unbelievable that anyone would NOT contemplate murder for gain. I mean, what's so hard to understand? Are you guys saying that if someone gave you a gun, brought you to a baby in its pram and said shoot this kid dead and I'll pay you fifty million that you would? Is there no line you would not cross? Have you no morals?
And if you don't, then why do you assume I don't? You couldn't pay me enough to kill another human being. Now, my father, that's another question: but then he's not what I'd categorise as a human being. I'd do him for half a curly-wurly and a packet of love hearts!
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02-25-2013, 11:17 AM | #118 (permalink) | ||
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No, but morality is a creation of evolution meant to serve a pragmatic purpose (i.e. allowing us to live in a group to better chances for survival.) It doesn't exist objectively. Just think of slavery. People thought that it was wrong even when the Spanish were considering enslaving the natives in America. They had public debates on the subject. But I'm sure it occurred to them that if they didn't exploit the New World and all that it had to offer, slaves included, that the English or the Dutch would and would come to dominate them. And so morality was altered to suit pragmatism. It wasn't until the industrial revolution and slavery became obsolete that morality was allowed to win out. Obviously for an individual morality is less fluid, since if a single human being isn't willing to die to protect their child or someone isn't willing to put themselves in danger to fight an oppressive government then morality wouldn't have enough power to protect the species as a whole, but the point remains that morality is not an absolute.
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02-25-2013, 04:05 PM | #119 (permalink) | |
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Smaller, less momentous dilemma: you find a wallet/purse in the street. There are identification details in it and rather a lot of money. Do you hand it in or do you keep it? Or, third choice, do you try to contact the person directly? And if the third choice, do you do so a) because you don't trust the cops or b) you hope to get a reward? It IS all about morality. The figure you're offered can be large as you want, or even something totally out there, like say Satan appeared and offered me the chance to have my sister cured completely, if I kill one person. Who am I to put that sort of moral responsibility on her, and how would she react if she knew how her newly repaired health had been boughtt? You need to know there's a line, and you don't step over it no matter what. Murder is where I draw the line. Well, further back really: I wouldn't even injure someone or rob from them. I'm pretty law-abiding really.
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02-25-2013, 04:13 PM | #120 (permalink) | |
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