zippy2006
Dragonsworn
The moral is the chosen.
Not according to dictionaries it's not. You're not talking about morality; you're talking about a kind of expediency towards arbitrary goals.
Let me just highlight some of the contradictory language that points to this same conclusion...
It's only because we must choose to live, that we must choose to discover the values our life requires, and we must choose to practice the virtues need to get them, that we need a code of values.
No, you should have said, "It's only because we choose to live," not "It's only because we must choose to live..." On your view we need not choose to live. "Must, must, must," is categorical language. All you're describing is doing things for ends. That's just planning, not morality.
Because how I act matters.
You say that your actions matter and yet you think it is equally moral to commit suicide as to live your life. How is it that life matters if, "The choice to live or die is pre-moral"?
Apparently what you mean is that your actions have consequences, but since there are no inherently good or evil consequences there are also no good or evil actions. If dying is as good as living, then your actions don't matter.
It makes a difference to my life whether I stay on the trail or walk off a cliff and whether I eat healthy food or poison.
And it makes a difference to my life whether I grow a beard or shave. What does this have to do with morality? Can you give a definition of morality?
Man's life is conditional and we aren't born knowing what's good for us and what's bad.
I don't think you even believe in good and bad. If you're not willing to say that death is bad, then what is?
We learn this from identifying and integrating the facts of reality, particularly those that pertain to our needs as living organisms. Or we could act without thinking, on the whim of the moment. which course do you think will bring more success at the project of living.
Why care about the "project of living?" I agree with you that eating food causes us to live longer, but you don't even think life is good; so why would eating food be good?
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