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Nothing my eye, Something for sure
Yes there is objective right and wrong. No one has a monopoly on it though from a human perspective. It is quite simply virtues that run contrary to vices. It is all how you define the terms and meanings.
No one wants vices done to them. The human plight and condition is such that people don't want other people to infringe upon their freedoms and private moralities. I don't want that either. What an adult consents to they are responsible for.
If a private morality is self abusive for an adult to live, they are solely responsible for it. I cannot interfere and I won't unless asked by them. If others enjoy abusing themselves, as long as their is no civil infringement on me then so be it.
But there are rules to self and others. Those be virtues vs. vices. I don't want to be apart of the swamp. And it's funny how people cry virtue when it's their own interest, and yet don't regard those things in their lives. Yes people criticize and point fingers all the while they cry morality and see no reason to exercise it for themselves.
Nobody regards virtues in their own lives, but there they are everyday as a necessity of living. People rely on them and the people that live them.
There are selfish, logical reasons for wanting virtues. As far as intellectually discovering what virtues mean I think people live in the dark ages on the topic.
Religion has not helped the case one bit. And I'm not sure what philosophy has done for it either.
I don't think objective morality is entirely clear to most people. Don't know why that is. People want what they want I guess. To me it's like looking into a bright light and not going blind. The natural world doesn't make it easy.
No one wants vices done to them. The human plight and condition is such that people don't want other people to infringe upon their freedoms and private moralities. I don't want that either. What an adult consents to they are responsible for.
If a private morality is self abusive for an adult to live, they are solely responsible for it. I cannot interfere and I won't unless asked by them. If others enjoy abusing themselves, as long as their is no civil infringement on me then so be it.
But there are rules to self and others. Those be virtues vs. vices. I don't want to be apart of the swamp. And it's funny how people cry virtue when it's their own interest, and yet don't regard those things in their lives. Yes people criticize and point fingers all the while they cry morality and see no reason to exercise it for themselves.
Nobody regards virtues in their own lives, but there they are everyday as a necessity of living. People rely on them and the people that live them.
There are selfish, logical reasons for wanting virtues. As far as intellectually discovering what virtues mean I think people live in the dark ages on the topic.
Religion has not helped the case one bit. And I'm not sure what philosophy has done for it either.
I don't think objective morality is entirely clear to most people. Don't know why that is. People want what they want I guess. To me it's like looking into a bright light and not going blind. The natural world doesn't make it easy.