We have been talking about ethics this week and I thought what everyone said was interesting. First, how do we say what is moral and what is not moral? Because there are so many different situations that would change whether or not something is moral. Is something ever unmoral? I was trying to think of something that would always be unmoral and it was very difficult. Of course raping someone is unmoral, but what situation could this very disgusting act be okay? What if be raping one person you would save the whole world? I know this is very extreme situation and would probably never happen, but everyone else would say it was moral then.
Now that we say we cannot define morality very easily, people ask if God is under the moral code. I believe that he is not. God made this law. He is all good and cannot do anything wrong. And although He allows bad things to happen He would not be the same God as we know him to be. Then he would just be our controller and we would not have a choice in anything we do. So basically we cannot even define morality to one simple thing because if we say it is what you feel in your heart to be right then many horrible things would happen. For some people do not have the best of hearts and feel that some things that are very crude is fine to do unto others because they feel it is right, or the other person deserves it.
I believe everyone should just think of others feelings first, and that would be a good start. I know it does not work for everything but it does work for a lot. :]
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This is an interesting hypothetical question: is it moral to rape someone if it saves the whole world? One that comes up in philosophy sometimes that's similar is if one could save a million people by killing an innocent baby would s/he do it? Would it be moral to do it? These examples aren't so far fetched as they seem. There have been cases where a mother has been faced with aborting her unborn child just to save herself. Some mothers will do it, other won't. Which one is morally correct? This example was played out in the show House - a brilliant philosophical tool and resource: must watch.
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