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Early Season 2: problem with the premise

posted 6 years ago by Mavican (85)
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Morality is relative. No one is inherently unselfish, as we all fear death, it's biological.

I feel good and bad is relative to the self, perhaps the ego's, notion of good and bad.

This is why I don't get heaven or hell. Or the notion of it. It would really only apply if there is a 'great spirit' and all and writing the rules.

So who is that then?
Otherwise good and bad would depend on what your subconscious or true heart believes.

Thinking about this stuff is tricky.

[–] Ace_Spade (9575) 5 years ago

That's one of the major points of philosophical thought: is there objective truth or not? If there's objective truth, then it opens the door for an outside-of-the-self morality. ie: there are objective ethical standards to live by. If not, then the standard is whatever you think it is.

If good and bad is relative to the self, then there can be no common morality, and everything is on the table. It's a really disturbing thought. Not that the other mode of thought is clean: if there is an objective standard for moral behaviour, what is it? And, more importantly: it could be something we don't want to be true ("You can't have sex unless it's for procreation," e.g.)