Comments on: Open question, please help http://swizec.com/blog/open-question-please-help/swizec/801 Drinker of tea Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: wockerjabi http://swizec.com/blog/open-question-please-help/swizec/801/comment-page-1#comment-2037 wockerjabi Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:47:17 +0000 http://swizec.com/blog/?p=801#comment-2037 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). 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).

]]> By: Jure http://swizec.com/blog/open-question-please-help/swizec/801/comment-page-1#comment-2036 Jure Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:27:38 +0000 http://swizec.com/blog/?p=801#comment-2036 I would recommend you look up how the identity of a group is formed by example of "others" I would recommend you look up how the identity of a group is formed by example of “others”

]]> By: Jim T http://swizec.com/blog/open-question-please-help/swizec/801/comment-page-1#comment-2035 Jim T Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:47:42 +0000 http://swizec.com/blog/?p=801#comment-2035 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? 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?

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