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Originally posted by Spanky
Again, that answer tells me what you think morality is but it does not answer why this precept is moral. This statement is a leap of faith. Just like John Stuart Mill's statement on morality is a leap of faith.
In addition, you have not defined good so the sentence really does not defined morality. In this sentence good and moral are really interchangeable so you are using the same term in its definition. That creates a nested loop. i.e. why is it good? Because it is moral. Whis it moral? Because it is good. Why is good. Because it is moral. etc. etc. etc.
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Actually, good is that which is not evil and morality is choosing not to do evil, but instead, choosing to do good. So, you see, it isn't a tuatological argument: doing that which is good is moral, not because what is moral is good, but because what is not evil is good.
