@reasoning logic,
reasoning logic wrote:
I have been studying ethics for a couple of years now and I find it to be odd that Christians and atheist alike have very little interest in talking about morality!
Well let's face it, christians and atheists come to different conclusions about what makes up morality or how morality is determined. Any discussions tend to devolve into less than about morality and more into semantics or definitions.
I personally think the problem is that in one group, they think morality is objective and universal, and the other group sees morality as something subjective that needs to be constantly addressed and debated. I am in the later group and quite honestly it is difficult to always pin down every case.
Beyond that it really comes down to what the over all goal of the moral code is. I personally don't think it is wrong to do self harm if that is what is intended. Or why should someone else dictate that self harm is not something that another should take part of. Sure they could have empathy for the person who is self harming, but to demand that they not self harm is completely different. In fact I would say it is immoral to impose your personal morality onto anyone else even if it might be something that a majority are accepting. A lot of people do not like that but I think it is the closest to our reality that you can get. People don't like it because they want to push their morality onto others and force them to accept it.
