Those are exactly the points I made. However, killing or an…
Those are exactly the points I made.
However, killing or an attempt to kill isn’t always good for the killer… there’s always risk. The killer, in their attempt, could be killed or prosecuted whether fail or succeed.
That doesn’t get to the gist of morality, though, which prefers that one make decisions based on a sense of empathy for their fellow human rather than just avoiding bad decisions to prevent accountability for one’s own actions.
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
That one doesn’t pan out so well for the sadomasochists or nihilists ;D …unless one yourself, you wouldn’t want them treating you the way they treat themselves.
Maybe, The Golden-er Rule: Do unto others empathically what will cause them least harm.
The problem with morality is that not everybody feels or experiences empathy… but those who don’t are the minority. The minority often times creates a lot of unnecessary harm for those who do.
Tough problem with maybe no right answer. Everyone will continue to look out for their own self interests with the occasional sprinkling of altruism mixed in and life will go on.
Organized religion has a long history of corruptibility and immorality itself, so those institutions are no better equipped to provide the answer.
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The problem always comes down to this:
You cannot base universal ethics/morality anywhere else but metal claims.
It's just funny how atheists never try.
They just posit what is "good" (empathy usually) without explaining how they got there.
Jaja, not metal, metaphysical
empathy is an instilled feeling of the worth and well-being of others that has to be instilled by a society that already has those values. Those values may be based on something objective, like health, or a belief system, like a demand from a higher being… but either way, it is subjective to the individual or group.
Not all persons or groups have this value.
Of course not. I'm even skeptical about your claim that a majority does.
They have empathy when it is very cheap... once it becomes very costly, the other side of it quickly appears:
"I'd rather be the perpetrator than the victim."
the majority of people, at least in the west, have a sense of responsibility to one another due to a social contract that values privacy, nuclear family, respect for personal property and pursuit of happiness. If this weren’t the case, these values would not have been targeted by the globalists.
I don't doubt it. I'm saying that empathy is easy when it is cheap.
Like bringing illegals into the country to live in other people's neighborhood.
But when they are sent to theirs, things change rapidly.