moral beliefs

@Olivier5,

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Like eating your own kids is considered bad in all cultures.

But isn't this too a kind of sliding scale

http://www.google.ca/#sclient=psy-ab&q=when+where+ok+to+eat+one's+own+children&oq=when+where+ok+to+eat+one's+own+children&gs_l=serp.12...244264.253861.0.260928.39.38.0.1.1.1.465.5444.4j29j2j2j1.38.0....0...1c.1.22.psy-ab..5.34.4679.hMx5RyBIkpA&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=4b5799d10c53187d&biw=1184&bih=642&bvm=pv.xjs.s.en_US.MpiVkF51mpA.O

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@dalehileman,

That was the strangest thing I have ever seen. Shocked

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@Logicus,

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That was the strangest thing I have ever seen.

Sorry Logic but I've lost track. What was it that appeared so strange

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@dalehileman,

The Google search results. Perhaps I should stay away from it for a while...

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@Logicus,

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The Google search results.

Aha thanks Logic

..but how, in what respect

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@dalehileman,

Just the idea that there are actually discussions about it.

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@Logicus,

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Just the idea that there are actually discussions about it.

I see
Yet doesn't the Whole Shebang suggest a kind of relativity in which a few of us (very few to be sure) for one reason or another think the practice is perfectly okay

..Just another instance of the general principle that nothing is entirely anything while everything is partly something else

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@dalehileman,

Well, that's the danger with various cultures in society. It leads to discrimination and segregation.

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Does "moral absolute" and "moral universal" necessarily mean the same thing?

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@Logicus,

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It leads to discrimination and segregation.

Some truth to that Logic. Hence the Zen notion to avoid preferences. A "culture" or religion tends to be carried away with itself, to the extent that the participant is supposed to accept each and every supposition in toto

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@dalehileman,

Zen is another religion, isn't it?

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@Logicus,

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Zen is another religion, isn't it?

No I don't think so, it's a sort of philosophy

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@dalehileman,

Oh. My mistake.

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@Logicus,

Logic, tsorai

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@dalehileman,

Hm?

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@dalehileman,

Eating one's offspring isn't bad, it is illogical.
Any species that chooses to do so risks extinction.
A hungry lion will devour human children - is the lion evil?

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@mark noble,

Yes...there is no morally wrong...there is just wrong...period.
...undercutting a well established given algorithm function for no good reason is obviously wrong.

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@Logicus,

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Hm?

Tsorai = "It's all right"

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@mark noble,

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Eating one's offspring isn't bad, it is illogical.

I wasn't defending it Mark

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Any species that chooses to do so risks extinction.

Seems a reasonable observation

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A hungry lion will devour human children - is the lion evil?

Like I had asserted, good-bad is relative to the exponent. The lion doesn't think so

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@mwurgler,

What do you mean when you say our deepest moral beliefs are shaped by nature? Do trees, cats and rivers shape our moral beliefs?

Morality is a universal human trait -- hardwired into our brains. Anyone's individual response to a situation on moral grounds would vary depending on both the programming hardwired deep in the recesses of the brain and their unique life experiences.

For example, the brain circuitry that governs morality is pretty screwed in psychopaths.

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