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Is there an absolute morality?
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<blockquote data-quote="stevevw" data-source="post: 76496794" data-attributes="member: 342064"><p>Though its funny how they always prefer similar reasons around the same thing "valuing life". People know intuitively why they prefer these specific reasons because they already know there is a rational for them. Thats because when it comes to morality it is not arbitrary. Its no coincidence that most nations choose similar core morals. Thats because its a more rational choice than other choices. I think this is dumbing down peoples ability to understand and know the rational for why they choose what they do. They already know that preferring to be alive and being well has good reasons behind compared to the alternatives. </p><p></p><p>Moral issues matter more to people than preferences and feelings. Proper arguements (not just exchanges of different arbitrary ideas) will inevitably require people to give a good account of themselves and justify their claim and reason their position. Saying I prefer to be alive or prefer to feel well doesn't cut it.</p><p></p><p>An arguement is a reasoning process like we are doing here. So when they say that "Human wellbeing"is the reason why we should behave morally they will elaborate beyond preferences or feelings. Rationalisations will be given like the wellbeing of society helps individuals and society to be better off based on a common objective knowledge about how wellbeing helps society.</p><p></p><p>A common theme through most appeals to an objective basis is the respect and protection of human "LIfe" whether it comes under the name of wellbeing, flourishing, survival, kindness, Golden rule it is all about respect for humans " Life". Thats because we all intuitively know that "Life" is valuable and demands respect and protection. All human societies converge on this truth as it is a necessity to be human and have societies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stevevw, post: 76496794, member: 342064"] Though its funny how they always prefer similar reasons around the same thing "valuing life". People know intuitively why they prefer these specific reasons because they already know there is a rational for them. Thats because when it comes to morality it is not arbitrary. Its no coincidence that most nations choose similar core morals. Thats because its a more rational choice than other choices. I think this is dumbing down peoples ability to understand and know the rational for why they choose what they do. They already know that preferring to be alive and being well has good reasons behind compared to the alternatives. Moral issues matter more to people than preferences and feelings. Proper arguements (not just exchanges of different arbitrary ideas) will inevitably require people to give a good account of themselves and justify their claim and reason their position. Saying I prefer to be alive or prefer to feel well doesn't cut it. An arguement is a reasoning process like we are doing here. So when they say that "Human wellbeing"is the reason why we should behave morally they will elaborate beyond preferences or feelings. Rationalisations will be given like the wellbeing of society helps individuals and society to be better off based on a common objective knowledge about how wellbeing helps society. A common theme through most appeals to an objective basis is the respect and protection of human "LIfe" whether it comes under the name of wellbeing, flourishing, survival, kindness, Golden rule it is all about respect for humans " Life". Thats because we all intuitively know that "Life" is valuable and demands respect and protection. All human societies converge on this truth as it is a necessity to be human and have societies. [/QUOTE]
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