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RE: STUDY OF ETHICS (MORALS)

in #steemng7 years ago

I love the smell of philosophy in the morning.

When it comes to ethics or the right and wrong, I think there's definitely a nature versus nurture things, but I also think there are some simple universal truths for most of humanity that go beyond nurture like not causing people harm. But right and wrong seem to be culturally developed pretty much everywhere. I suppose you would categorize that under Normative Ethics.

I think controversial topics can be like this also. As Louis C.K pointed out, people who protest abortion seem like conservative assholes who want to control peoples' bodies to some pro choice people, and they don't think they should be protesting and picketing, but on the other hand those people think that babies are being killed and that would seem like a fairly rational way to act if you think babies are being killed. Right and wrong for the most part isn't based on truth but more so people's intellectual maturity and capacity for seeing other perspectives, alongside societal/social indoctrination and emotional based responses based on that individual.

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