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-- Posted by whoami111 at 12:37 pm on Oct. 6, 2008

How many of you believe that morality really do exists? There is a right or wrong.


-- Posted by libreg at 1:46 pm on Oct. 6, 2008

I don't believe morality can be analyzed by such black and white standards. Some morals, such as adultery and stealing. Some are completely man made. The only "natural" ones I can think of are things that go against forces that held evolution together, such as killing someone. Still, I'm being completely biased. I don't think there's a clear answer, to be honest. At least not from me. So I just picked no.


-- Posted by JohnTheNormalOne at 2:52 pm on Oct. 6, 2008

Quote: from libreg at 10:46 pm on Oct. 6, 2008


I don't believe morality can be analyzed by such black and white standards. Some morals, such as adultery and stealing. Some are completely man made. The only "natural" ones I can think of are things that go against forces that held evolution together, such as killing someone. Still, I'm being completely biased. I don't think there's a clear answer, to be honest. At least not from me. So I just picked no.

How is killing against the evolution? It is in the core of evolution. As far for my viewpoint, I voted 'man made', because I believe that it is a product of society, and as such, varies in different cultures. It is basically created to keep the society in one piece, which is not so bad.


-- Posted by hI jAMES at 3:44 pm on Oct. 6, 2008

I couldn't vote for either of those because its both.  Our present day "morals" are based on corrupted and incompetent sources.  Which lead people to not believe in them at all.


-- Posted by medjai at 10:22 pm on Oct. 7, 2008

Why would morality be non-existent were it manmade?

Why is morality as invented by any other being or entity more legitimate and real than morality invented by humanity?


-- Posted by hithere at 4:39 pm on Oct. 13, 2008

I don't understand it at all. I made a topic about this in September.

I haven't read much about it, though.


-- Posted by JulieisWHOA at 7:15 am on Oct. 15, 2008

Morality is what each person makes of it. Wideset morals such as killing people are just the morals that a lot of people believe in, but certainly not everyone.


-- Posted by randomrocks at 2:13 pm on Oct. 15, 2008

Morality is based on society's point of view. We as a society decide is moral and what is immoral and a lot of times it is based on the way we were raised.


-- Posted by allsmiles at 10:01 am on Oct. 16, 2008

I've nulled because it's both existent and manmade. It's also personal.


-- Posted by the seer at 8:49 pm on Oct. 17, 2008

This was a hard question for me to answer. I do believe there is such a thing is morality however I think that the ideas of good and evil are purely perspective.


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