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3242, RE: some thoughts
Posted by LK1, Thu Oct-30-03 08:37 AM
>"because we must be moral to have a fair and orderley
>society"

"fair" and "orderly" are a part of morality... my question is: why be fair? why be orderly? why have morality?

>I mean that's really simplified of course... but essentially
>isn't that what it comes down to? Humans are generally
>intelligent enough to know that without this concept of
>"morality", THINGS FALL APART.

do they? I mean, the world could've been run in a very orderly fashion by Nazis if morality hadn't jumped in the way... so why did we feel the need to save those being tortured? Why have these feelings?

>You ask the question "Why do we have Morality?" or "Why be
>Moral?"
>
>I say "To be good and right to society" or "because it's
>good for us as a whole" (or however you'd like to phrase
>that).
>
>What I didn't see before is that that does NOT answer the
>question... it only poses the question again.

exactly :)

>Because why SHOULD I be Moral? To benefit society?
>
>But why should I like to benefit society? (Society being
>defined as anyone OTHER than yourself)
>
>In other words why would I care what's good for ANYONE ELSE
>except for me?

exactly.

>Then you have to say "because it's MORAL to play by the
>rules that benefit society"
>
>but that does not answer the question... because the
>question still remains...
>
>and now you're right back at "Why be Moral?" again.
>
>Am I making sense? I was up all night. Goodnight.
>
>
>peace.

Yeah, you made total sense. The answer is God.