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Permalink Reply by John Major on June 15, 2012 at 2:04pm

Yes, it's clearly an emotional reaction.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on June 13, 2012 at 9:55pm

Ethics is tied to a culture in a certain time in a certain place and based on a human's personal and social experience. Thus, conscious is different things for different people. One person may feel bad about accidentally stepping on a worm. Another person may feel bad about not finishing off a wounded enemy soldier.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on June 13, 2012 at 10:11pm

@Unseen (One can only wish --) - I assume you're referring to situational ethics - personally, I would never step on a worm, and I would administer first aid to a wounded enemy soldier, and have.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on June 13, 2012 at 10:54pm

You want a pat on the head? Good boy!

No, I was referring to the fact that whenever people say ethics is based on empathy they forget that empathy isn't a cosmic constant. One person will have pangs of conscience over something (whether they should or not) and someone else won't give it a thought.

Situational ethics is a joke, isn't it? You either conform your behavior to a standard of some sort or you're just doing what you want to do, which isn't ethical behavior in any sense of the word.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on June 13, 2012 at 11:21pm

Don't touch my head, you don't know me that well!

RE: "Situational ethics is a joke, isn't it? You either conform your behavior to a standard of some sort or you're just doing what you want to do, which isn't ethical behavior in any sense of the word."

No, it isn't. I will not, as mentioned above, step on a worm, but - depending on the situation (i.e., "situational ethics") - I will kill a man before I will allow him to kill me.

Much like Chewbacca, the word, "wrong," really isn't in your vocabulary, is it?

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on June 13, 2012 at 11:30pm

If you didn't want to kill the man for some overriding reason, you wouldn't kill him.

What do you mean "wrong" isn't in my vocabulary? I just used it in a sentence! And not just for the first time.

If you mean that I don't think anything is ever wrong, no I don't believe that. What I do believe is that nothing is ever really wrong in any kind of cosmic sense. Things are wrong in a way contingent on a time, a place, and person with a unique personal history.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on June 14, 2012 at 12:04am

I think we both know I mean that YOU could be wrong, and yes, I know that that concept is not in your vocabulary.

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Permalink Reply by Dogly on June 15, 2012 at 2:13pm

Unseen, do you mean "conscious"?  Aware?  Or did you mean "conscience", that basket in which we file our chosen ethics and principles?  

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on June 15, 2012 at 3:13pm

I meant "conscience." thanks for pointing that out. I suspect, given the context, most people probably figured that out. I know that when I read another poster making a similar mistake, I end up understanding what they intended to say.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on June 13, 2012 at 10:08pm

@Lonely - RE: "how we can easily  deceive it?"

I don't believe this is what you meant to say - re-read your post and re-phrase, if necessary.

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Permalink Reply by thelonely on June 13, 2012 at 10:29pm

@archaeopteryx

deceive or mislead as if when a human does wrong things (not moral) he knows that is wrong and not moral even though he does it intentionally.

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on June 13, 2012 at 10:48pm

I'm sorry Lonely - I think you know me well enough by now, to know that I would never make fun of you because of the language barrier (despite what "Molly" might think), but I truly do not understand what you're saying. Could you possibly rephrase and repeat?

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