What Is Morality?

[ihaveanappforthat]

Morality. Must the ends of something justify the means? Is it morally acceptable to kill one to save many? Is killing wrong regardless of the outcome?

The line between right and wrong can be muddied rather easily.

All this talk about book privileges is boring, let's talk about something interesting.

Comments

[heartwrenching]

I've been told that I'm more excitable than most people, so yes oh yes, my heart is frequently beating beating BEATING like a thousand hammers - but especially so when something is engaging me. I feel sorry, really truly deeply sorry, for anyone who doesn't feel stuff like that. How do such sad, sad people even know they're alive?!

Yeah, yeah, that sounds exactly right. It's like... colors. Yes yes yes it is exactly like colors!! Let's say my favorite color is blue. It's not that I've got anything personal against red, but it's just not my thing and if I had the option, I would paint my room black and blue black and blue black and blue top to bottom!! But the person I respect more than anything in this world - he loves red, more than anything, and he delights in spreading it around. So even if I personally like blue more and would not feel too comfortable splotching it all up with red, I've got nothing against people with a sincere devotion to scarlet.

If you know what I mean.

[ihaveanappforthat]

You feel sorry for them? I can't say I would. I'd bet things get so boring for those people, doing anything for an ounce of entertainment, to feel even the slightest flutter... But I don't think they'd want to be normal. But, I couldn't be sure. :)

I think I understand what you mean, you have an uncommon view on things.

[heartwrenching]

I feel sorry because they don't even KNOW what they're missing! Worse, more horrible still, a lot of them can't even conceive of it! And in turn, I can't conceive of them not conceiving it! This is not to imply that I am thrilled with and find absolutely everything engaging, no no GOD no! HOWEVER! When something interesting comes along, it only makes sense to get completely excited, right? To throw absolutely everything you've got at it, right? To seize the day with both hands and SQUEEZE, right?!

Yeah yeah yeah, I've heard that a lot. And that I change my mind a lot. But the thing of it is, I've only ever been me and everyone else has always been themselves, so can they really say if it's odd?

[ihaveanappforthat]

You're implying there aren't normatives created by populations.

[heartwrenching]

Implying? Implying?! I've already outright STATED-

No, wait, no no, I've gotten ahead of myself. I haven't outright stated anything yet! Such disordered thinking, such reckless disregard for the time strea!! For the very fabric of reality! ... yeah, let it stand, let the paradox catch up with us and rip us apart eventually. Let reality tear itself to SHREDS not knowing how to patch up such a perfectly wonderful hole in causality!

Anyway, where was I? YES, normalcy and it being fake, right. That's still all perspective! How big does a population have to be for it to count as a valid representational size for this little logic puzzle you've thrown at me?

[ihaveanappforthat]

Are you saying people's opinions are invalid because they don't make up a large population? How careless.

[heartwrenching]

Ohhh no no no no! Not at all! Quite the opposite, really! Because I still - STILL - am not entirely sure if normalcy even exists, no matter if we're talkin' about a group of five people or about every single person who was, is, or ever SHALL be a denizen of this world of ours!

In other words, allow me to indulge in the most sublimely irritating form of philosophizing and answer your question with a question. How can normalcy be a thing when all the people crawlin' around on earth right now can't even find it in themselves to agree about damn near anything?

[ihaveanappforthat]

You will always be able to find at least one other person in the world that agrees with you. Or so they say.