Personal preference and culture seem to be the source of our ethics. — Tom Storm

I don't know if the science of descriptively moral behaviors (the Science of Morality) will help with ethics. — Mark S

I fear that ethicists will not recognize its usefulness.

Does this science provide a foundation for morality? — Mark S

I regard this whole endeavor as a fruitless dead end. — Fooloso4

↪180 Proof Did you know that Jesus was a Palestinian? — Moses

↪NOS4A2, the Clown isn't anti-state. Just pro-Clown-state. — jorndoe

I am not trying to do ethics. — Mark S

For me, as a nihilist, I find the idea that there is no transcendent meaning rather joyous and exciting and one full of possibilities. I am unencumbered by dogma and doctrine and need not concern myself with following any preordained path. — Tom Storm

Do you have a conclusive argument justifying an imperative moral system? — Mark S

If not, what moral guidance would you suggest as superior to what I propose here?

In no way does the science of morality (as the study of what is and has been descriptively moral) make our ultimate moral goals an empty phrase — Mark S

Jews are one family. — BitconnectCarlos

Some blacks were fine with slavery & with their roles under the confederacy. — Moses

There is nothing threatening about opposing occupation and oppression. That is not antisemitism; you can agree with it or not. Even being anti-zionist is not antisemitic. There are hundreds of thousands, if not more, of ultra-orthodox Jews, including some who are in the Israeli government, who are anti-zionist but they are not antisemitic. They see themselves as the epitome of Jewishness and Jewish tradition.

So there is politics and there is prejudice, and if we don't make a distinction between the two, then what we are actually doing is enforcing a kind of silence over the policies that have been conducted by the Israeli government for a long time and that have ultimately culminated now in the utter destruction of Gaza. — Omer Bartov, Israeli-American Holocaust scholar

... There's been no strong response to these campuses protests which involve vandalism (and apparently now hostage taking) and protestors barring Jewish students from campus in scenes reminiscent of the 1930s in Europe. — BitconnectCarlos

What I can't figure out is, what Trump voters think they're voting for. — Wayfarer

↪Echogem222 I didn't strawman you. You have this tendency to accuse others of making a strawman when they point out how your posts make zero sense. — Lionino

A paradox is a situation that results in something impossible or contradictory. This ain't one. — Lionino

our ultimate moral goals. — Mark S

Hey you, Whitehouse
Ha, ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse
Ha, ha, charade you are
You're trying to keep our feelings off the street
You're nearly a real treat
All tight lips and cold feet
And do you feel abused?
You got to stem the evil tide
And keep it all on the inside
Mary you're nearly a treat
Mary you're nearly a treat
But you're really a cry

What do you think about the relationship between ethics and politics? — Jack Cummins

Also, what is 'right' or 'wrong' about political correctness, and how far should such correctness go in outlawing what may some may regard as being 'offensive'?

'Blood Meridian'

The quote matches the bleak, bereft setting of the book - circumstances where god seems to be missing. — Tom Storm

... my brain generates a model of reality ... — Truth Seeker

Imagine trying to define a hole. — Echogem222

The closest thing to a hobby I had was 20 years drinking whisky and meeting strangers in bars. Loved almost every minute of that, but quit to save my liver. — Tom Storm

How can we prevent all harm? — Truth Seeker

Absent this Sisyphusean agon (i.e. 'the unexamined life is not worth living'), how else can we – at least some small yet nontrivial fraction of the eight billion of us – thrive (flourish)? — 180 Proof