BiscottiGelato

It's a set of standards...but who sets the standards?  Everybody will have a different opinion.

I want to raise another question for discussion...do you think better/higher moral standards yeilds bet ...
shutterbug 發表於 2009-8-4 14:55

higher moral standard? what's high and what's low? LOL who'se gonna call what's 'high' and what's 'low'? Majority? which majority? which country? which culture?...

very difficult question to ask... not to mention answer.....

BiscottiGelato

道德已死
eatbanana 發表於 2009-8-4 19:14

Agreed. 道德 is just a concept, there is no hard and fast rule, it's an abstract concept that it's almost impossible to use to judge another person. Judging another person purely based on some so called 道德觀 will only result in certain bias.

(The following is not pointing to any one specific. The 'you' is non-subjetive)

Instead of judging other with 道德 this, 道德 that, spend more time and worry about yourself instead. Assess yourself how you are doing and how you are contributing, or taking away from society and whether your own behavior is acceptable to yourself. When looking at others, maybe try and sit in their shoe and think from their end. If you really think someone else is wrongly hurting someone else's interest, then don't criticise other by holding this holy 道德 hostage. It's merely your opinion, own up to it.

Just a bunch of BS because I'm lazy at work LOL~

BiscottiGelato

That's why i say moral is not a standard, it's just a concept.

You can say a certain action is 'immoral', but you have to realize it's not that the action didn't abide the moral standard. It's just that for you, it's immoral. A mere opinion and you founded it based on the concept of moral. Someone else can disagree with you.

if you say a big group of people thinks a certain action is moral/immoral, then that's just culture.

but all in all, moral is just a concept, which really are opinions formulated by 1 or more people for a certain timeframe. These opinion can change through time, from person to person or culture to culture. There's no standard.

Rather than figuring out how to criticize other people, might as well sit in someone else's shoe and learn from it. And if one do feel itchy criticising another person, try to realize that it's one's own opinion, instead of holding 'moral' as the big flag and become ignorant.

Just what I think moral is. I better check wiki and see how the consesus defines it LOL