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April 18, 2015, 02:18:35 PM |
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I'm not sure. Although I live my life following certain morals (mainly just treating everyone as I would like to be treated myself), I don't think they can ever be proven to be totally objective.
I mean, it's easy to say that killing/causing pain to another is inherently immoral. However, this can never be proven, as reality itself is subjective.
For example, what if someone has an extreme solipsistic viewpoint, and decides to kill the whole of the human race. I don't think they're necessarily being immoral, because they don't consider the human race to be real or alive in the same way that they themselves are.
For a less philosophical example, what if someone murders someone else, because they think that they are possessed by unexorcisable demons. The murderer may believe that he is helping the victim by putting them out of their misery, or he might even think that killing the person could prevent the demons escaping and causing more deaths later, or some such nonsense.
The point is, the murderers in these scenarios could be accused of being careless/stupid/narcissistic etc, but I don't think they are guilty of being immoral, as in their own minds they are doing nothing wrong.
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