Morality and Subjectivity

I'm not sure that I see logic entering there, rather the result of experimentation. I don't know of any logical reason that 2 + 2 must equal 4, but rather the simple acknowledgement that every time it has been tested it has been found to be true.After first determining that 2 + 2 = 4, it might be possible to logically go on to make some general rule but one factor about basic math is it is not taught logically, but rather by memorization. Once we move on to some forms of higher math such as Algebra and geometry, logic enters. But things like addition seem to be totally experiment based as opposed to logically based.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Are Laws really moral? Is there really any connection between for example, speed limits and morality? Is it moral or immoral to exceed a speed limit in order to save a life?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

IMHO, no, legal does not equate to moral.LAWs specify a specific act and are absolute. The sign says Speed Limit 55, it does not say Drive Safely. There is no reason I can think of that 55 is more moral than 54 or 60 or 52 or 26.This is a characteristic of all laws. They are arbitrary. The overarching goal might be moral, provide a safer society, but the laws themselves are not moral.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Again, morality is entirely subjective and will depend on the individual as well as their personal knowledge base. It will also depend on the society and era. I personally think morality extends to all creation if you mean that the individual human has a duty to try to do what is right regardless of whether it relates to other humans, human interaction with other critters or human interaction with the environment.But I do not say that morality extends to interactions between critters and other critters, critters and humans, critters and the environment or the environment itself. I believe that morality is a purely human construct.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Hey, let's at least get the attributions correct.In Message 281 you had said, to which I replied In Message 282: You had agreed that the position I posted was fine for everyday practical life but is not any good philosophically.I replied that "I happen to live in the real world and not some philosophical fantasy land."I did not say or even suggest that you lived in a "philosophical fantasy world" (Jar). If from what I posted you assumed that you live in some fantasy world, then perhaps it's time that you examined just where you are living.I have simply said that morality is subjective and the same for an Athiest or Theist under similar circumstance.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion