thenexttodie
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hackenslash said:Morality is not, nor can it be, objective.
thenexttodie said:If you never existed would it still be wrong to rape a child?
Stupid question, and it tells me you didn't bother reading the linked article. You can do better than that.
Wrong? Useless term.[/quote]
I have read your article. I don't how you can say wrong is a useless term in a discussion on morality. You used it 5 times in your own article you linked to.
You define Morality as a broad agreement that we should not unnecessarily inflict harm upon one another. Ok. Not that I disagree with your definition but I was just wondering if you believe if it actually possible to fullfill this standard. That we do not unnecessarily harm each other?
Your disscussion;
hackenslash said:"We can agree that harm is caused when one of us kills another. We can agree that harm is caused when one of us rapes another, or steals from another.
Some of these are not set in stone (well, unless you're of a particular theological persuasion). There are many moral dilemmas littering the ethics literature that show that it isn't always easy to spot what a right action is in a given situation. For example, is it immoral to lie? Yes? Is it wrong to lie to a Gestapo officer about the Jewish family hiding under your floorboards, knowing that revealing them will lead to their deaths?
I'm sorry to disappoint you but I have heard this all before in various Christian church sermons.