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Mr. Freedom · 149w
How is their mental illness your business?
2minutebitcoin · 159w
This sounds very right. Society is built on the margins - there’s always only a handful of people, or companies with people, that are pushing the boundaries of innovation to make the world a better place. The rest of the plebs are pure maintenance. Our moral norms in part allow us to practically...
isabella · 159w
I had a VERY long discussion with a friend who believes that moral values are shaped by societal norms, and that actions like lying or cheating are not inherently good or bad. However, I believe that ...
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Moral values are shaped by societal norms. Society evolves, and its moral values evolves with it.
And for christians that think that christian moral is absolute and set in stone, in the bible, things that we think are very wrong are seen as rightful: incest (all sons of Adam and Eve marry their sisters), slavery (think about Abraham), adultery (also Abraham), genocide (that one happens so many times...), murder for money (the first christians use their new divine powers to murder all the new christians that doesn't give all their money to the nascent new christian community). The list goes on...
Probably we do things that generations to come will find horrible. We just don't know better.
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Alex · 159w
Also, the people give the government exemption from moral rules. The government can lie, steal, murder, and do much more, with the support of the majority of people.
isabella · 159w
yeah, this was exactly his argument on why humans don't really have an internal moral compass