morales

[maybebaby888888888]

Do you think they are relative or absolute?  

[puresilver]

Morals? I suppose that depends on which one. Some morals, like "don't hurt me and I won't hurt you" are absolute.

Others, like "Don't have sex before marriage" are relative to each person and how they were raised.

Although, even the "absolute" morals such as the first can be perverted by culture, so maybe all morals are loose, chageable, and relative to the situation.


(If you actually meant MORALE, disregard this)  

[Sanguvixen]

I don't exactly understand where you are going with this. Could you elaborate a little in your topic post?

 

[AnonymouZ]

Sanguvixen

I don't exactly understand where you are going with this. Could you elaborate a little in your topic post?

 

[The Candy Store Massacre]

puresilver

Morals? I suppose that depends on which one. Some morals, like "don't hurt me and I won't hurt you" are absolute.

Now hold on a second, that's not entirely true, I don't seem to recall how 6 millions Jewish people actually hurt Adolph Hitler. (Technically he said they took all the jobs from Germans but talk2hand )So to some people that's no absolute either, bullies, they hurt others for they're on reasons, not an eye for an eye reason. That moral is entirely relative. Foo rofl  

[PickleBoy]

I think that there are gonna be universal goods and bads but not everything is percieved morally the same in every culture. And, as always, there will be the twisted crazy, like Hitler, whom disregard these universal principals. Morals all differ depending on enviroment, religion, etc.  

[AnonymouZ]

Morals are completely relative then. This is NOT a nature vs nurture thing. You either pick them up at the place you were born, or you suffer the consequences. Whether or not there are some similar rules might be explained by a sociologist, and i suppose he would go with the, what happens if you're just allowed to kill anybody, for whatever reason in whatever culture/place/society?

I read some explanation as to why some civilizations agreed on being homosexual was a bad thing, that said something like if homosexuals were allowed to ... be, then something like people caring about pleasureable sex would outweigh the sex for kids stance. I dont' make sense right now anyway... i might edit this crap out later. gots to go!  

[Niveous]

hmm...i always hated ethics the most. (more a metaphysics guy)

Anyway, morals....to me....are all relative, unless I make the statement sooooooo detailed.....and sooooo specific. In such a case I would just wasting time.

The best thing I learned from morals was from a certain philosopher. It really hit home with me.

He says basically if you take your respective moral and imagine a world where EVERYONE followed it, would the world be a better or worse place because of it.