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<blockquote data-quote="tansy" data-source="post: 71996421" data-attributes="member: 210572"><p>I'm not sure that I can answer those questions posed in the OP...though I would in general agree with what some other psiters have said. What I do think is that morality is a very elusive concept. Otherwise, why would there be so much discussion and debate on ethics and morality, as though there were some universal application?</p><p>There seem to me to be so many situations where one is not sure what the 'moral' thing is to do. For example, (I worried about this when I was learning to drive...I was able to drive pretty competently, but not yet taken my test, and this was before the age of mobile phones). I thought, supposing we were driving in the middle of the night somewhere like Dartmoor or a very isolated spot miles from house, phone boxes, any trafficetc and my husband fell very ill or was so badly injured he was unconscious and would probably die without medical attention. Morally I thought that I should drive him to the nearest place to get help. But this is against the law. So morally, should I take him for help or should I disobey the law? I</p><p>Perhaps that's not a particularly good example, but I can't think of a better one just now.</p><p>If we are bringing God into it....I tend to think that God is above morality I don't actually think He is moral, immoral or amoral. I f we truly believe in God (whichever version) or gods, then we will endeavour to base our moral decisions on how we see that deity, plus our conscience, plus reasoning, plus upbringing and cultural context. If we are humanist, atheist or whatever else, then we will base our morality on our conscience, upbringing etc. without reference to God or a god.</p><p>I guess, basically, that morality is the attempt to do what is best for other people with what we know of the effects of our actions. And of course we cannot always get it right because we just don't know everything. It's a bit like that joke where someone helps an old lady across a road. They get to the other side...and she didn't actually want to cross. She ends up having to precariously negotiate the busy road all by herself to get back to the other side!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tansy, post: 71996421, member: 210572"] I'm not sure that I can answer those questions posed in the OP...though I would in general agree with what some other psiters have said. What I do think is that morality is a very elusive concept. Otherwise, why would there be so much discussion and debate on ethics and morality, as though there were some universal application? There seem to me to be so many situations where one is not sure what the 'moral' thing is to do. For example, (I worried about this when I was learning to drive...I was able to drive pretty competently, but not yet taken my test, and this was before the age of mobile phones). I thought, supposing we were driving in the middle of the night somewhere like Dartmoor or a very isolated spot miles from house, phone boxes, any trafficetc and my husband fell very ill or was so badly injured he was unconscious and would probably die without medical attention. Morally I thought that I should drive him to the nearest place to get help. But this is against the law. So morally, should I take him for help or should I disobey the law? I Perhaps that's not a particularly good example, but I can't think of a better one just now. If we are bringing God into it....I tend to think that God is above morality I don't actually think He is moral, immoral or amoral. I f we truly believe in God (whichever version) or gods, then we will endeavour to base our moral decisions on how we see that deity, plus our conscience, plus reasoning, plus upbringing and cultural context. If we are humanist, atheist or whatever else, then we will base our morality on our conscience, upbringing etc. without reference to God or a god. I guess, basically, that morality is the attempt to do what is best for other people with what we know of the effects of our actions. And of course we cannot always get it right because we just don't know everything. It's a bit like that joke where someone helps an old lady across a road. They get to the other side...and she didn't actually want to cross. She ends up having to precariously negotiate the busy road all by herself to get back to the other side! [/QUOTE]
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