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...
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 ...
@"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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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