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What is the source of morality? [View all]
What is the standard? If morality originates in myself or is subject to what I, as an individual, think then it doesn't exist.
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Doesn't morality originate in the judgment of an individual that something is moral or immoral?
GodlessBiker
Apr 2013
#78
That's because some people's idea of morality can indeed be subjective
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
#13
Often morality has nothing to do with survival? I'm talking about group survival ...
Jim__
Apr 2013
#16
Since we are all members of nested groups, the morality of all the groups is important.
Jim__
Apr 2013
#30
Actually I was thinking of morality, which is the word I used and which is the word used in the OP.
Jim__
Apr 2013
#46
Yes, and merriam-webster defines "natural selection" as applying to individuals or groups.
Jim__
Apr 2013
#73
I think a lot of what we call morality is the human tendency to learn, spread and create norms.
backscatter712
Apr 2013
#80
I agree - evolution, which leads to what I'd call psychological morality.
backscatter712
Apr 2013
#79
I think morality is rhetorical device used to promote predictable bahavior.
ZombieHorde
Apr 2013
#28
when we make a moral decision that lies in a social or ethical gray area..
Phillip McCleod
Apr 2013
#62
Do have you doubts about whether or not it is wrong to gouge out little kittens' eyes for fun?
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#29
Do you regard emotional empathy for other conscious beings as "merely subjective"?
struggle4progress
Apr 2013
#65
I am slow! Your saying that if morality starts from within it does not really exist?
hrmjustin
Apr 2013
#31
But that wouldn't stop us from collaborating, forming a consensus, coming to a commonly accepted set
eomer
Apr 2013
#69
There's a third school, Virtue Ethics, that's popular among ethics academics.
backscatter712
Apr 2013
#83
Ethics growing out of personal character traits is an interesting addition to the other two.
Thats my opinion
Apr 2013
#85