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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:11 PM Original message |
"Fear is the mother of morality" - Nietzsche. Discuss |
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Shine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. Fear causes people to be moral? Is that his argument? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. No - his argument is that morality is a disease (a la Rimbaud) |
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Shine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I would argue morals and ethics are both influenced by religion, culture, family and friends. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. But that's personal meaning |
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Shine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:55 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Have you ever heard the phrase, |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I would say that you are ethical when you take it upon yourself |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. FEAR is an acronym for Federal Egg Answering Room |
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Shine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:37 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Um.....OK. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Episode 44 |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. No, fear is the mother of marketing |
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crimsonblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
7. exactly! |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
10. Society itself is the mother of morality.... |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
11. If the fear is of reprisal, then, yes |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
14. Well I dunno |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 07:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Interesting thought - but who's to say ethics are not altruistic |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
16. Perhaps we fear that of which we are ignorant...and therefore we try |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-04-08 08:03 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Dead on TA |
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