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Originally posted by Spanky
It makes sense if you think reason can not be the basis of morality.
Before I made the following query:
What is wrong with this statement:
If morality is not based purely on ones self interest, then if someone uses the word morality, right or wrong (in the moral sense) in a conversation withsomeone else, those words can really only have meaning if the communicater and the person being communicated with agree on a common moral code.
The point being that either you agree on a code (like the ten commandments) or you agree on selfishness. Absense that you can have no foundation for morality. You can't reason out morality. Like I said before - why is killing innocent wrong. Absense a selfish argument (ie - if we let innocent people get killed then I am next) you can not common up with a logical explanation of why killing is wrong. You must just agree that it is.
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They don't have to agree on anything, they just have to understand each others' positions on the relevant aspect of morality.
ETA and I will give you a buy on not knowing this because you apparently don't follow the FB, but you can't take anything Sebby says seriously, especially if it's a broad statement of philosophy on something. He loves making broad statements and then totally contradicting himself -- sometimes even in the same post, though more frequently in a subsequent one. He's totally full of shit.*
*I am actually saying this in a somewhat affectionate way. Either cervical battering has improved my disposition, or marriage has changed him. I think the latter.
