So I'm having a little trouble clearing this up, I was wondering if maybe jon, brain police, or someone could dissect this for me? So if I define morality as the way a person should act, in other words a moral action being one that should be undertaken, it seems like this definition of morality has nothing to say about might making right. When someone is stronger than you, be it a man or a government they constrain your available choices through force. I understand that the initial constraint of choice is immoral, but what about after its already occured like the world we live in now? Ultimately someone mighty can take all your choices away except the choice of life or death, when this happens I would say that one should do what the mighty person says rather than die. So does this mean that it the extreme case of a dictator it is moral to obey? I was pretty much going with Aristotle in thinking that if a moral theory justifies murder then its probably wrong, and I put obedience to power in that category of wrongs.
Is my definition of morality wrong? Thanks for any help.
It doesn't differ practically from a harsh turn of events making your life not worth living and thus choosing to either continue in the hope that things will get better or to just die. For example, if you are forced into servitude but have others depending on you, so that resisting would endanger them you may consider it imprudent to end your life. Then again I do not believe in an absolute imperative to resist aggression, I merely think aggression should be punishable. Up to the individual to resist it or not, depending on how it will impact their life and those of dependents.
Freedom of markets is positively correlated with the degree of evolution in any society...
Jon Irenicus:It doesn't differ practically from a harsh turn of events making your life not worth living and thus choosing to either continue in the hope that things will get better or to just die.
February 17 - 1600 - Giordano Bruno is burnt alive by the catholic church. Aquinas : "much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death."
I agree, if a third party is involved and aggressed against it's definitely a punishable violation of the NAP.
I guess I was just falling into the trap of categorically assigning an action a moral value regardless of context. Thanks for the brain reboot. Obedience to power is right or wrong depending on the content of the individual and probably a load of other things.
twistedbydsign99: I guess I was just falling into the trap of categorically assigning an action a moral value regardless of context. Thanks for the brain reboot. Obedience to power is right or wrong depending on the content of the individual and probably a load of other things.
Glad you realized that that is a trap!
Brainpolice: twistedbydsign99: I guess I was just falling into the trap of categorically assigning an action a moral value regardless of context. Thanks for the brain reboot. Obedience to power is right or wrong depending on the content of the individual and probably a load of other things. Glad you realized that that is a trap!
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