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MadaManga
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Message 72 of 72 (391048)
03-23-2007 10:08 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by joshua221
01-20-2007 3:58 PM


Any moral code which promotes intolerance &/or ignorance is not born of morality. True morality is based on empathy and sympathy, which aid you in determining how to interact with others. Intelligence is our natural advantage over other species and morality is a part of intelligence - it helps determine our reasoning. Thus the absolute standard of morality is 'social responsibility' - that which aids society is moral, that which deprive society is immoral.
Spreading preconceptions & presumptions can make people intolerant to "the other" that they have been given preconceptions & presumptions about. In defiance of reason, people can become convinced that immoral acts are actually moral.
Thus they no longer allow themselves to feel empathy or sympathy for these "other(s)". That is how "subjectivity" is made between cultures. Some cultures promote an ignorance to the ultimate deprivation of the society. The society will stagnate over time unless it addresses this issue, eventually leading to its destruction & the birth of a new social order. This has happened several times in history.
You do not commit murder, theft etc, unless you have lost your ability to reason (insanity). Unless you are born a sociopath, or have recieved brain damage to that effect though accident or substance abuse (accounts for 1-4% of the population), the natural order of your brain is not to murder. Normal reasoning tells you that you that murder will not profit you unless it is in self-defence. Loss of reasoning may convince you that you will profit, but it is a lie.
You have to work at bending your mind against it natural inclinations to commit immoral acts, because they are literally stupid acts.
A young child or sociopath will commit 'foolish' acts because they do not have morality, they are in a state of innocence. For a child it is the responsibility of adults to punish harmful acts & reward benefical acts because they haven't developed full reasoning yet. The incentive to receive reward & avoid punishment will substitute for moral reasoning until the child developes. If a child does not have the correct incentives they can develope skewed reasoning and have a harder time dealing with society. They know what acts are immoral but the skewed reasoning makes them commit immoral acts anyway. Sociopaths do not respond to the punishment/reward system & never develope morality or full reasoning.
Scroll down for the table version. (For some reason the table shows up way below & I can't figure out why!)















Intelligence Asinine
Reason IntellectLogicvPresumption Ignorance Insanity
AnalysisvPreconception
In balance withFeedsback
Morality Empathy vIndifference Intolerant
SympathyvDistain
Will PracticalityvDelusion Purposeless
ImaginationvDullness
Edited by MadaManga, : Touching up table.

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