What do you think might happen if you regularly violate your taken-for-granted moral principles?
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So what do you think, moral realists? — spirit-salamander
What do you think might happen if you regularly violate your taken-for-granted moral principles?
So what do you think, moral realists? — spirit-salamander
I think that one of the results we might experience if we violate our deepest moral principles is that if anything goes wrong we may begin to see it as a form of 'punishment'. This is connected to any underlying gnawing sense of guilt, and an angry nagging conscience. — Jack Cummins
I'm no moral realist, but I suppose regardless of you meta-ethical stance, one thing that might happen if you violate moral principles, is social exclusion... which for a social being is bad enough. — ChatteringMonkey
I'm no moral realist, but I suppose regardless of you meta-ethical stance, one thing that might happen if you violate moral principles regularly, is social exclusion... which for a social being is bad enough. — ChatteringMonkey
I'm no moral realist, but I suppose regardless of you meta-ethical stance, one thing that might happen if you violate moral principles regularly, is social exclusion... which for a social being is bad enough.
— ChatteringMonkey
Violating principles which are believed by society to be moral principles could lead to social exclusion, but simply violating moral principles wouldn't. — Michael
As far as I know, even Kant believed that it would be somewhat (conceptually?) inconsistent if there were no kind of reward for doing good deeds. — spirit-salamander
The question is then also why one maintains moral principles whose possible or even probable violation seems threatening and troubling. — spirit-salamander
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