Comment on Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality.

• Arkouda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That isn’t “morality”.

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  • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Morality is just a word we give to our personal rules to live by thes begin in groups

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    • Arkouda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Morality is a word given to a specific idea, i.e. a universal set of rules for “Good” and “Bad” that are believed to be undeniable, and is different from “rules” or “laws” prescribed to live cohesively.

      If we agree not to murder each other to the benefit of the group, we are not saying we won’t kill each other if it no longer benefits the group. If we agree that murder is inherently wrong, we are saying that we won’t kill each other even if it does benefit the group.

      Morality requires more than simply agreeing to not do something. Simply abiding by a rule in animals is called “premoral behavior”, which assumes they are not acting with morality but the precursor to it. Much like we would have before developing those basic “rules” into a morality that has been historically done through spirituality.

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      • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So explain slavery. That was once morraly good. Hell, some still do.

        There is no such thing that is universally good ot bad. If it were it would apply universally not just to the ingrown.

        We are seeing it all over thr world in real time. Murder should be a universally condemned act yet we see “moral” people screaming for the death of people they deemed unworthy every day

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