forum Stereotypes.

Started October 29, 2018 by @CW-BornConfuzzledLeftILoveYa

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Thanks. That kind of explanation is what happens when you allow a group of tired college students to sit around and be philosophical…

You have no idea how happy I am to have helped.

What if it's for the good of someone other than you, but at the expense of someone else? (sorry I don't think anyone knows the answer. Just throwing it out there.)

I think it goes like this… Good is determined both by you yourself, and the majority of humans… You don't think rape is good, and neither do the majority of humans, myself included… So rape is evil… It's that simple…

Then you get into the "Greater Good" discussion. And I answer that the ends do not justify the means.
Or else it would be okay to kill some random innocent person to save the life of someone else.
(I guess that would have to be in a magic world but the point still stands.)

I think it goes like this… Good is determined both by you yourself, and the majority of humans… You don't think rape is good, and neither do the majority of humans, myself included… So rape is evil… It's that simple…

But remember what I said.
I'll ask you a question if all humanity thought rape was okay, (except for the victims) would it be?

But would it be okay to kill someone to save someone else? That's basically my question.

Hmmm, idk. Then, it's all perspective. It's not evil, I don't think, unless the motivation to help said person was selfish (like, let's say it was your boss who needed help, and you think you could get a promotion out of it.)
Sometimes there's no good way out…
On the topic of perspective, though, you know that phrase "to hell with good intentions?"I think that might kind of apply, especially in cases where you do something you perceive as helpful or correct (and not in your self-interest alone), when really you're hurting everyone involved.

Oh, we're talking about killing people now…

But would it be okay to kill someone to save someone else? That's basically my question.

No.

These are all good points. This kind of thing is hard to make sense out of.

But would it be okay to kill someone to save someone else? That's basically my question.

No.

Mind explaining please?

I mean it's understandable, but not good.

I think it goes like this… Good is determined both by you yourself, and the majority of humans… You don't think rape is good, and neither do the majority of humans, myself included… So rape is evil… It's that simple…

But remember what I said.
I'll ask you a question if all humanity thought rape was okay, (except for the victims) would it be?

It very well used to be that way… In certain Nordic cultures where warriors took slaves of war as wives… Men were judged on how many "wives" they had… These wives did not consent and were often well… But nonetheless it was seen as "good" or "admirable" in ways… If humanity as a whole were somehow like this… Then, yes, it would be… And that makes me want to take a cold shower…

Killing an innocent to save another single person is not good…
Killing someone who is endangering another person's life (trying to kill them/physically harm them) is not great, but more acceptable…
Sacrificing one to save many? Hard to say… my personal code says it's okay, but in the perspective of the moral code I just explained, I'm not so sure.

Because you have to think about the other person. You do not have the right to take someone else's life for the gain of anyone.

Killing an innocent to save another single person is not good…
Killing someone who is endangering another person's life (trying to kill them/physically harm them) is not great, but more acceptable…
Sacrificing one to save many? Hard to say… my personal code says it's okay, but in the perspective of the moral code I just explained, I'm not so sure.

Now that one I know is very wrong. But I also know I would probably do it myself.

Killing an innocent to save another single person is not good…
Killing someone who is endangering another person's life (trying to kill them/physically harm them) is not great, but more acceptable…
Sacrificing one to save many? Hard to say… my personal code says it's okay, but in the perspective of the moral code I just explained, I'm not so sure.

Now that one I know is very wrong. But I also know I would probably do it myself.

I get it…

I think it goes like this… Good is determined both by you yourself, and the majority of humans… You don't think rape is good, and neither do the majority of humans, myself included… So rape is evil… It's that simple…

But remember what I said.
I'll ask you a question if all humanity thought rape was okay, (except for the victims) would it be?

It very well used to be that way… In certain Nordic cultures where warriors took slaves of war as wives… Men were judged on how many "wives" they had… These wives did not consent and were often well… But nonetheless it was seen as "good" or "admirable" in ways… If humanity as a whole were somehow like this… Then, yes, it would be… And that makes me want to take a cold shower…

So you would rather believe that there is no actual object morality. That is a pretty scary thing to think.

I think it goes like this… Good is determined both by you yourself, and the majority of humans… You don't think rape is good, and neither do the majority of humans, myself included… So rape is evil… It's that simple…

But remember what I said.
I'll ask you a question if all humanity thought rape was okay, (except for the victims) would it be?

It very well used to be that way… In certain Nordic cultures where warriors took slaves of war as wives… Men were judged on how many "wives" they had… These wives did not consent and were often well… But nonetheless it was seen as "good" or "admirable" in ways… If humanity as a whole were somehow like this… Then, yes, it would be… And that makes me want to take a cold shower…

So you would rather believe that there is no actual object morality? That is a pretty scary thing to think.

It is very scary… That's why I live by my own code of trying to learn as much as I can and lessen the suffering of others…

I'm sorry… Don't mind me… I've just lost faith in most of humanity…

Now maybe you see why I'm always trying to help others…

What do you believe, religiously?

And if you think I'm a bad person for that… Then I'm not gonna change your mind… Obviously you're entitled to your own beliefs… Every one of you is!

What do you believe, religiously?

I think there might be a Higher Power… The chance that everything had to happen just right for life to be created is infinitismal… So… You know… But I'm not religious like that…

Hi

It's always a good place to start. I have a hard time understanding people who think there was nothing and then BANG there was something. (Pun intended.)

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Was that not funny?

I am pun intolerant