I need to know how you feel about morality

[andrewducker]

Poll #25203

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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There is one true morality

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Yes, and I know what it is, and it accords with my own views
3 (4.8%)

Yes, and I know what it is, but it does not match my own views
0 (0.0%)

Yes, but I do not know what it is
6 (9.5%)

No
43 (68.3%)

Something Else I Will Explain In Comments
11 (17.5%)

To explain slightly, if you believe that there is a God, and that you know what the moral rules they set are, and you agree with those rules, that would be option one.

(Or you can replace "God" with "the natural order of things" if you believe that this includes an inbuilt morality.)

Comments

[myka]

for once I find myself in the majority! (of respondents)

[agoodwinsmith]

There are things I abhor, and I will judge anyone who does them, but humans have justified doing everything doable. In fact, I think sometimes that if there is a commandment/law about it, it's because people want to do it, and will if they can get away uncaught.

[symbioid]

I don't like using the word Morality for the "religious" context it implies.

My heart says "surely there's *something* that guides us as a universal law with regard to 'morals'"

My brain says "nah, the universe is chaos and as no inherent meaning, in theory you can murder away with no moral dilemma" (ethical dilemma, on the other hand ;))

I personally choose not to murder, for many reasons (even if there are times that certain politicians make me wish I didn't have such a "moral core" :P)

I think the closest thing I can come to is that morality is a process of least resistance to causing conflict. I can't quite explain it. Maybe the Tao.

But whatever I say about "morals" will ultimately be about Ethics, because I don't believe in some universal arbitrary rule.

I certainly don't believe something is good just because "God says it is so" (Euthyphro dilemma). That was one of the sticking points that led me out of Christianity, when my youth pastor basically said "God IS Just and therefore whatever God says is Just, and if God says we should all be tortured for all eternity - that is Justice"

I kinda get what he's getting at, but yeah, no. In that sense I guess there IS a universal morality, but it exists outside of $Deity. But I don't believe in that framework so it's irrelevant to me except as a "what if".

[emceeaich]

I think morality, like other things worth doing, is like housework and complex dynamic systems. It's never done-done, there's always new things popping up, but you ignore past history and process at one's peril.