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>And, in that respect, it's quite easy to see that helping an old person who fell down to get up is something good, while raping children is not. I think it's
by eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>And, in that respect, it's quite easy to see that helping an old person who fell down to get up is something good, while raping children is not.
I think it's a bit more difficult than that. After all, in many cultures, it's fine to rape children, as long as you rape the right children.
- coldtea 10y agoThat would only mean that morality is relative across cultures, not that morality doesn't exist within the same culture.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoThat doesn't really get to the heart of the question, as regards the social psychology of morality: why has some culture arrived to the particular moral notions it teaches and enforces? What properties, objects, or circumstances are they representing?
- coldtea 10y ago>why has some culture arrived to the particular moral notions it teaches and enforces? Based on its history -- and because enough people came to believe that such a moral code promotes its wellbeing and interests better than alternatives.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoThat is no kind of precise causal explanation.