Why should you be rational? (or communicative? healthy? adaptable? sustainable?) Reason, history and experience strongly correlate not being "moral" (or rational, etc) with a significant likelihood that you will be more miserable (frustrated, dissatisfied, abject) throughout your life with others (especially strangers) and not less miserable. As a metacognitive eusocial species, it follows that every human group survival toolkit (i.e. culture) includes morals (rationality, etc) of one kind / degree or another.“why should I be moral?” — Georgios Bakalis
Morality is, for the most part, social leverage which seeks to control or confine behavior and thinking. Without the presence of others, say you had the planet all to yourself, where would morality or ethics manifest itself in your life? — Seditious
If there's anything for me that answers "why should I be moral" then it's the concept of doing what is in my best interests and the best interests of others. — Judaka
god must be atheist explicitly commits the naturalistic fallacy — Banno
Doing what is in the best interest of others is where morality begins — Banno
well I don't want to get into any potential virtue signalling — Judaka
Morality begins with a set of guidelines or rules for how we should behave. — Judaka
Try reading it. — god must be atheist
so surely asking “why should I be moral” has its answer embedded in the question itself. — Georgios Bakalis
If you read my paper you'd maybe make a different derisive remark. — god must be atheist
It is inevitable that one follows some moral code. The question is, which one, and how to make that choice.Ethics/morality is more or less the study of what you should do. So, when saying “why should I be moral?”, surely that is no different to saying: Why should I do what I should do. — Georgios Bakalis
why should I be moral? — Georgios Bakalis
Ethics/morality is more or less the study of what you should do. So, when saying “why should I be moral?”, surely that is no different to saying: Why should I do what I should do. — Georgios Bakalis
17 days and not a whit of interest. Perhaps morality is not your thing. — praxis
Try rewriting it with statements rather than rhetorical questions, reformat it - give headings or something. Drop the raping children examples and rewrite your points so they're more succinct. — Judaka
If you read my paper you'd maybe make a different derisive remark.
— god must be atheist
I flicked through it.
I think you are right. I would. Several. — Banno
Ethics/morality is more or less the study of what you should do. So, when saying “why should I be moral?”, surely that is no different to saying: Why should I do what I should do.
That seems to not make sense (maybe?), so surely asking “why should I be moral” has its answer embedded in the question itself.
I feel like there is a mistake in her somewhere, please tell me. — Georgios Bakalis
It's all in the fucking paper, if you pardon my language — god must be atheist
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