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Thread #75250 Message #1320460
Posted By: mack/misophist
08-Nov-04 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Just what are moral issues???....
Subject: RE: BS: Just what are moral issues???....
What are moral issues? They tend to be defined by the group with the most TV stations, newspapers, and pulpits. The definitions are almost always sloppy. Let's look at just one of mary garvey's issues, young girls who dress like hookers. To begin with, it's the parent's responsibility to decide how their children dress, not the state's. So this is really 3 groups: parents who don't think "the look" is lacivious, parents who can't control their children, and parents who don't give a damn one way or the other. What do you want to bet that most of each group believes itself to be moral?
BTW, it may be simpler if we distinguished between morals and ethics. Morals are based on authority, scripture usually. Ethics are the rules we need to survive more or less peacefully in groups. There's a lot of overlap but they're not the same. "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." is clearly a moral rule. "Thou shalt not kill." is also ethical.