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Desire · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 547 Location: AK

Lurhis: I have my own morality. It is not perfect but as long as I keep trying to improve it, I feel i am going in the right direction.

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Desire · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 547 Location: AK

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AfyonBlade · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:49 am Post subject:

I had a pretty interesting conversation with my friend who is shipping off with the Marines in Iraq in a few weeks. He was telling me about all of the therapy that is provided for the men after they kill someone. I won't go into the long religious discussion, but it basically boils down to 'It seems to be inherently evil, and the worst wrong possible, to kill another human.' When you hear someone killed someone else, you usually gasp. Why? When you hear someone was beat up, robbed, or cheated on, you gasp, or go 'Awww...' Why?

Human emotions are a very good guideline to what is moral or ethical or whatever. If you are trying to nail them down, just sit and think things through. I'm not a really religious guy, but the 10 commandments are a pretty good place to start with some guidelines. I guarantee that everyone(short of those statistical anomalies) would agree on them. If you say 'I can't see myself doing that', then it's most likely not moral/ethical/the-right thing-to-do. I say most likely because there are topics like pre-marital sex that come down to a personal view.

Am I off base here?
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Major Tom · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 7562

9 and 10 are iffy too

kame · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2563 Location: Alba Nuadh

3, 4, 5 and 7 are too easily twisted for my tastes.
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Idlethought · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject:

I personally like most of the 8 "I'd really rather you didn't"s. Just out of curiosity where do most of you guys pull your morals from? For that matter, what general rules do you guys live by?
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kame · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2563 Location: Alba Nuadh

Enjoy life, and as much as possible, don't do it at someone elses expense.
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AfyonBlade · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:47 pm Post subject:

Okay, well, 6-10. Forget about 1-5, then.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:06 pm Post subject:

I had this idea, but now I'm not sure if it can be done, but here goes: Can an action be moral yet unethical and could another action be unethical yet moral? I was trying to think of an example thinking it might help but I'm stumped, the best I could think of would be doctor assisted suicide.
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Major Tom · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 7562

it depends on which ethical standard and what set of morals you are applying.

i'll say this, though -- it is definitely possible for an action to be unethical, immoral and completely legal.