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OK-here is my 2 cents about morality, ethics, etc:
I believe that morality is something you aquire really. I mean, there are sociopaths who don't give a care about anyone else's life, their own, or anything else. They are able to kill without caring. Are they doing "bad"? There are kids at school who are suspended, over and over, and still act the way they do. This is what society has pushed on some people: apathy.

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written by djur
Remember, there's pleasure in doing what you think is right. What you think is right is itself derived from the basic desire to be accepted. People tend to form their moral codes around the expectations of others. This is all basic psychology and sociology, and it would behoove philosophers to take at least a glance at science every once in a while.

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Thought there are some exceptions, not even the most twisted of masochists will take pleasure from the murder of their family, having their welfare and shelter taken from them, or other such things.

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Remember, there's pleasure in doing what you think is right. What you think is right is itself derived from the basic desire to be accepted. People tend to form their moral codes around the expectations of others. This is all basic psychology and sociology, and it would behoove philosophers to take at least a glance at science every once in a while.

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m: Connecting God to morality has always felt like a distraction to me. How does the existence of an omnipotent being create an absolute morality? Nobody has ever answered this question to my satisfaction. Unless you want to grant your God the power to make 1=2 and construct square circles, it's not within his power to make a single definition the only true one. The very nature of a definition is that it has to be accepted by those who use it; morality is a linguistic term, and language is democratic.

If your answer is (as it seems to be) that God has the power to punish anyone who does something he doesn't like, well, firstly, that doesn't seem like any sort of morality that I'm familiar with, and secondly, it still relies on the subject of his decrees being susceptible to reward and punishment. Sociopaths are almost impossible to reason with precisely because they're virtually immune to the normal effects of reward and punishment; they don't desire anything, they simply react. People with damage to the frontal lobes of the brain (such as from a lobotomy) sometimes behave similarly.

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I yet again posit that everyone should read Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.

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