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Asked 2 years ago
by Emilyfordinner  United States |
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I believe that most people are inherently good. There is some very exciting research going on these days studying ethics in children cross-culturally. It seems that all children have an innate sense of fairness, and that it is pretty universal in construction (what is fair, what is not) across the board. 'Reasoned' unfairnesses have to be learned--things like "It's OK to not feed the hungry" and "It's OK if innocent people are convicted and executed as long as most of the time we kill the guilty." Just for example.
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[3 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyStill, all cultures that I know of share some of the same basic moral guidelines. Like the prohibition on killing other in-group humans.
I believe a few people are inherently all good and a few inherently all bad but that the great majority are at some intermediate point on the scale.
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[2 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyAnd there we have it. The very heart of what is wrong with the leftist liberal philosophy. And the reason why society is declining.
Good and bad are 'subjective'. Which leads to the conclusion that there is no difference between right and wrong and on to the fall in standards of behaviour that we see all aroung us.
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[1 point] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyNo - it is rather a cheap philosophical point. If one insists that good and bad are merely subjective then one must conclude that right and wrong are also subjective.
It is not my position. I think religion is objectively bad and wrong in many ways.
Btw - thanks for the insults. Nothing as good as personal abuse to weaken an already irrational case.
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[1 point] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyThat is the path to moral equivalence. You will have to travel it without me.
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