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 May 8 2007, 05:35 PM
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 straight as a rainbow and twice as colorful  Group: Member Posts: 523 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 112,415  |
Lets start this out by saying that I don't want this to turn into a debate about religion. We have FAR too many of those.
As a society, we have a detailed code of what is right and what is wrong. Laws are put in place to try to discourage people from doing something that is "wrong." But where do these concepts of right and wrong come from? Don't say that it comes from some sort of higher power. First, that's all bs, but more importantly, these concepts of right and wrong have been around far longer than any modern religions. What makes something right? More importantly, what makes something wrong? discuss. |
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May 10 2007, 08:48 AM
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 The kooks Group: Member Posts: 499 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 516,563 |
The perception and concept of right and wrong is the same as good and evil. Society has been teaching us, almost telling us if you like about what is deemed right and wrong when really it's nothing but a view point. Just because stealing is deemed wrong by society, does it really make it wrong universally? Off course not, because there's nothing in the laws of the universe or anything like that which states or indicates it to be wrong. It's just because we're taught thats its wrong so therefore we deem it wrong. It's all about nurture.
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May 13 2007, 12:56 PM
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 The one man Voltron Group: Member Posts: 711 Joined: Dec 2006 Member No: 491,519 |
QUOTE(Mystic Eyes @ May 10 2007, 3:48 PM)  The perception and concept of right and wrong is the same as good and evil. Society has been teaching us, almost telling us if you like about what is deemed right and wrong when really it's nothing but a view point. Just because stealing is deemed wrong by society, does it really make it wrong universally? Off course not, because there's nothing in the laws of the universe or anything like that which states or indicates it to be wrong. It's just because we're taught thats its wrong so therefore we deem it wrong. It's all about nurture. I agree with what you said, although right and wrong aren't exactly the same as good and evil. Ethics aren't the same as morals after all. They belong to complete different levels of human social evolution, and while there's reciprocal action between them the borders separating both fields do exist. |
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