Morals

[andrewducker]

Following on from Allorin's post here, I'm intrigued as to whether peopel think that morals are principles that can be applied to situations or are situational (but you can generalise into principles) or something else...

[Poll #164321]

Comments

[allorin.livejournal.com]

Is abstaining from murder a moral choice, or an ethical one?

[andrewducker]

Ethics are moral systems. So any choice made because of an ethical system is automatically a moral one.

[nickys.livejournal.com]

It could also be a practical choice - fear of the consequences of getting caught.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Both.

Murder feels wrong to me. But I can hypothesise circumstances in which I might be so angry and outraged that I would want to kill someone. My anger/outrage might make me feel that murder was the moral choice.

Ethics, however, say that murder is never right. Ever. Not even state-sanctioned murder.