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Dalibor

['Member']Joined: January 02, 2018 at 22:28Last active: January 27, 2018 at 05:201 discussions15 comments

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On Guilt

January 07, 2018 at 21:57 15 comments Ethics

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Psychopathy is an illness, so this is an unfortunate demonstration. Murder is principally wrong because it goes against the nature of life itself. Thi...
January 09, 2018 at 14:08
For physical laws, that is the dead world, we can state scientific facts about it because we can put distance between it and us. But when we come to l...
January 08, 2018 at 12:06
In: On Guilt  — view comment
Thanks a lot.
January 08, 2018 at 05:45
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So in other words, you see feelings of guilt as an emotional reaction to damaged integrity. This seems to me a keen and simple answer, thanks.
January 07, 2018 at 22:37
@"bahman" I am also interested in the phenomenon of guilt, but I think we should first learn more about it. Your question seems too simplistic to me. ...
January 07, 2018 at 22:00
@"SonJnana" I tried to avoid stating this, because it is basically off-topic, but you are right that we can't demonstrate objectivity of moral values ...
January 07, 2018 at 13:33
If we hold the opinion "killing is bad" as merely a subjective value with nothing objective that gives it content, than it would be equally viable tha...
January 05, 2018 at 03:32
i understand your position. And as I have said, we reached a point that leads us towards a more general discussion: the relationship between subjectiv...
January 04, 2018 at 22:28
The way I see it is that if something evolved over time on the level of all that is living, that automatically means that it had to be so as the conse...
January 04, 2018 at 07:34
It may have been so, but it's very unlikely and to me doesn't make much sense. If you believe that killing is not natural on an objective level, thing...
January 03, 2018 at 22:43
The way to distinguish that it is 1) that applies and not 2) is this: if 2) applied, than refrain from killing would be an evolutionary phenomenon, an...
January 03, 2018 at 19:13
All the way I was presuming that organisms feel and act as they do as the consequence of the universal law. If we view life as a complex system, that ...
January 03, 2018 at 18:46
Well, killing is nothing else but a survival strategy. When you say "objectively morally wrong to kill", you are basically abstracting away killing as...
January 03, 2018 at 16:21
I can demonstrate what you ask. It has been shown by scientist that not only man, but animals in general have an innate emotional refrain from killing...
January 03, 2018 at 02:32
SonJnana, I think you don't understand that people and life itself are not one and the same thing. People indeed have different moral ideas, but life ...
January 02, 2018 at 22:40