4
Nov

Open question, please help

   Posted by: Swizec   in Uncategorized

Ok so it’s actually two questions:

  1. Why does viewing morality (and related) as a set of arbitrary rules always seem to get me in trouble?
  2. Could you suggest some reading material so I could learn what the fuck the word ‘offensive’ is supposed to mean? It feels like a very alien concept and I would rather not keep clashing with my environment about it.
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3 comments so far

Jim T
 1 

Is morality the rules or the goal that the rules are intended to achieve?

Arbitrary may be a bit strong. Rules of the road are in some sense ‘arbitrary’, but you can’t just decide to make your own, and not all sets of rules would produce a workable system. When you say ‘arbitrary’, some hear ‘free for all’.

What sort of trouble and clashes?

November 4th, 2009 at 13:47
Jure
 2 

I would recommend you look up how the identity of a group is formed by example of “others”

November 4th, 2009 at 14:27
wockerjabi
 3 

Morality is subjective, so it’s not arbitrary on the individual level, but it won’t be consistent across any large group. So viewing the compromises people come to as arbitrary is viable. I suspect where you’re clashing is that people assume you are talking about their own morality (not arbitrary) when you are really talking about conventional morality (which probably is).

November 4th, 2009 at 21:47
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