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Thanks. Trying to understand. What do you mean by "morality is a choice..."? Where does that choice come from?Morality is a choice to live in accordance with principles of justice and compassion.
The choice is ours.Thanks. Trying to understand. What do you mean by "morality is a choice..."? Where does that choice come from?
Nature is a broad brush to paint with.Is morality a natural tendency towards one particular thing or other? Please explain.
Do you mean the choice is ours to be moral or not? So morality is not the choice.The choice is ours.
Morality mostly deals with how we humans treat each other. To a lesser extent it deals with how we treat the other animals.Is morality a natural tendency towards one particular thing or other? Please explain.
Is morality a natural tendency towards one particular thing or other? Please explain.
So you don't think we are born with a national tendency toward any one particular thing, but we learn morality. Thanks.Nature is a broad brush to paint with.
Morality is learned. We learn to paint, and we learn what to paint.
Thanks.Morality mostly deals with how we humans treat each other. To a lesser extent it deals with how we treat the other animals.
We humans have a conscience to guide us. This is a very simple process. If an action we are considering feels wrong, we shouldn't do it. These feelings of wrongness are intuitive and immediate. They emerge from the unconscious.
If conscience warns us that the action we are considering is wrong, and we do it anyway, we will be punished by guilt whenever we remember our failure.
Do you mean the choice is ours to be moral or not? So morality is not the choice.
Which means you have not explained what morality is, but you don't think it is a natural tendency. Is that correct?
Okay thanks.I believe its learned. Each person's and cultures morality is different depending on where they are from, their childhood, their personal experiences, and so forth. All children are born without morals. They'd most likely won't survival without being taught some sort of does/don'ts/and whys. Without that external knowledge, we'd be, well, just like every other animal. Have you noticed people start to get enlightened experiences and others wisdom as they get older?
Others would disagree.Morality is not hard to define or understand. A good example example is the parable the good Samaritan in the New Testament (Luke 10:25-37). A man is beaten up and left to die. Two men see the man dying and choose not to act. A third man, chooses to assist the dying man and does what is needed a facilitate his recovery. As humans we have an innate tendency towards being apathetic and selfish. We also have an innate tendency towards selfness and acting in the best interests of others. Two men made a choice to do nothing, a third to act. I would consider the third man who acted with compassion made a moral decision.
I don't think conscience is concerned with how we treat ourselves.Thanks.
What about how we treat ourselves?
So is it reasonable to say, we have an internal guide to morality, and it is trained based on how we respond to that guide, so that we can actually reject or accept morality?
In that case, is morality fixed?
Morality is an attempt to regulate our instincts.Is morality a natural tendency towards one particular thing or other? Please explain.
Is morality a natural tendency towards one particular thing or other? Please explain.
Others would disagree.
What determines that helping the man is morally right?
Nope. No national tendencies.So you don't think we are born with a national tendency toward any one particular thing, but we learn morality. Thanks.
Indeed. Morality is a 'fixed set' when we learn it. We add to and delete from the base set as we learn.Do you think morality is a fixed set of standard then, that we come to know about, as we gain experience and understanding, or do you think we decide from what we experience, what we consider to be moral?
Needs to be to paint on such a large canvas.Nature is a broad brush to paint with.