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If you lie for convenience sake it would seem immoral. There are exceptions like national security. Or usually when it harms you or someone else. Thou...
December 27, 2018 at 08:03
Agape with Freedom... sounds good to me
December 27, 2018 at 06:05
Only "God" (Up to your beliefs) and the couple can truly make it everlasting. Just as addicts have to find it within themselves (though help wouldn't ...
December 27, 2018 at 05:58
@"Valentinus" I was born out of wedlock... I'm the reason my parents married. Didn't change how my dad felt about me. I'd rather be called a bastard t...
December 27, 2018 at 05:15
My moral stance is there are other good reasons to drive barefoot. I shouldn't be limited to driving with something on my feet, that's unreasonable to...
December 27, 2018 at 04:19
Socrates is a lot like Jesus they both died for standing up for what they believed in. Martin Luther King Jr. was similar. These people changed societ...
December 27, 2018 at 02:37
-Unneeded Space-
December 27, 2018 at 01:44
Socrates explains how it is a "general principle". Generally speaking yes, but like I said if it is unjust which is against generally what happens? I ...
December 27, 2018 at 01:43
FYI, usually addictive personalities are the ones that get most addicted. and yes there are WAY more addictive drugs than Marijuana. (Most of the excu...
December 27, 2018 at 01:17
Can you work with Prohibition... let's not get ahead of ourselves and go down that bloody and scary part of history. I'm imagining more Renaissance a ...
December 26, 2018 at 23:57
What book/source says Socrates said it was immoral to break the law no matter what? I want to read it for myself. Breaking a law for breaking a law's ...
December 26, 2018 at 22:36
It is only a problem when it affects your family and responsibilities, it is addiction, but if everything that's addicting is immoral what are you to ...
December 26, 2018 at 22:26
Tim Wood is pulling out the big guns lol
December 26, 2018 at 22:20
It's an individuals choice how many times - 0,1,100.
December 26, 2018 at 22:18
I'd like to see where Socrates said you follow the law no matter how unreasonable...
December 26, 2018 at 22:00
It isn't you too, as I said probably... I didn't say ya did, maybe if I claimed it as fact. It's likely that you have and you are unaware of it - just...
December 26, 2018 at 21:58
What's the fallacy?
December 26, 2018 at 21:52
It's more stating a fact and presumption than a disagree or agree. It kinda goes back to the question too. Socrates was "Corrupting the youth" and pai...
December 26, 2018 at 21:51
In Socrates's defense he probably assumed good thinking men took the reins, but even he drank the hemlock.
December 26, 2018 at 21:39
You probably break laws you aren't aware of. So don't take a moral high ground.
December 26, 2018 at 21:16
I mean sure, a lot of laws are good... not trying to break the whole system... but saying ALL laws were put into place for the interest of the America...
December 26, 2018 at 21:10
Oh money talks... that's another
December 26, 2018 at 21:03
There are laws that protect corporations at the expense of the American people for one. I'd go even patent laws as patents are now currency. You can b...
December 26, 2018 at 21:00
Your defense... to me you are saying, if it is a law it must be good enough on its own. So, if it were legal to steal you'd do it.
December 26, 2018 at 20:57
It means to me there should be moral and a rationale behind a law and not for a particular interest. The pen is mightier than the sword. Legally boxin...
December 26, 2018 at 20:46
What if you had a moral obligation to break the law? To stand up to tyranny? Like we had a "Hunger Games" world? Is Catniss wrong for wanting her peop...
December 26, 2018 at 20:37
Being armed is not the cause of being polite. Appeal to authority isn't logical, but I am not going to start an argument when a gun is to my head. Tho...
December 26, 2018 at 19:59
Well, grades are an honest assessment, unless favoritism then that's immoral. It's more about being able to follow directions and present something of...
December 26, 2018 at 19:52
Are you sure it is immoral to break the law? What if there was a law that was immoral? Most laws have legitimacy but not ALL laws. Some laws favor cer...
December 26, 2018 at 19:43
For the most part, to me as an American, if he can get by eating rice and meditating... he has found a good life and in our pursuit of happiness he is...
December 26, 2018 at 19:27
I agree it is not so simple, and it is like Thomas Aquintas (sp?) was getting at. Nothing in excess, but again anything can be taken to excess and dru...
December 26, 2018 at 18:57
I've been into critically thinking literature, and as a rule you look at evidence and reasons for something before accepting it as true. If there is n...
December 26, 2018 at 18:39
There is a reality outside of our own heads.
December 26, 2018 at 18:15
Well, not objective as of yet, but I say we strive for a certain code of ethics. You don't want to live your life mistaken. Eating your dead father is...
December 26, 2018 at 18:07
I was asking as an adult for adult. I don't condone under that legally. It's not harmless. Totally worth the wait.
December 26, 2018 at 01:09
I'm young yet, but it is more a qualm of marriage viewed today in our social context. It's a problem with the way it is driven ($$$) and enforced (pol...
December 25, 2018 at 17:37
I can kinda see divorce by needing a third party, but the actual union. And for property rights, how would it be any different from boyfriend/girlfrie...
December 25, 2018 at 15:18
I can add, for argument's sake, SHOULD we allow government to be involved?
December 25, 2018 at 14:38