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.
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