Magnetic North and Morality

[vicedriven]

I think my moral compass may be broken. Then again, maybe I pawned it away for amusement.

Currently, I don’t miss it all that much, more the idea of it. I believe that I should have one and therefore feel unequipped. It’s really not all that useful considering I have skewed values anyway, but still shouldn’t you carry it for posterity or

Comments

[malicedoll]

Better to take chances than to spend your whole life locked in your room for fear of bad outcome.

Besides...playing it safe is for people who use spray butter instead of the spready stuff.
(well..I use spray butter...but I think you get this gist of it :P)

[junesongflames]

morality is over rated. it is just society's way of controlling your actions. if a child was raised by wolves it would have no concept of morality nor would it think twice about killing something for food(notice shameless bashing of vegetarians).

biology lesson of the day

[singlemind]

yeah, but... morality is an important aspect of social evolution tied in closely with our own evolution as a species... without some guidelines for social interaction chaos exists and progress cannot occur. these kind of things happen all the time in nature, with any animal society. these things simply do not happen.
take the Polistes wasp family for example, there is violence in their society, but they never kill one another. as multiple queens can exist in a single colony, the stronger of them will eventually dominate and subdue the others... and the workers, they attack males to encourage them to leave the nest as they are useless for anything but breeding and leeching off of the food supplies. or new females are subdued so they dont breeed themselves, threatening the queen. i mean, this stuff is important, otherwise it would all fall apart.

[neoacidcreep]

All animals follow some form of moral code; only man is devoid of an inherent moral code. Example; man is the only species on the planet that hunts for sport, animals hunt to eat, which if one were to extrapolate this concept it could be said that animals kill for survival alone, while man kills for fun. Killing is the most basic ideas in relation to moral code, so if one of the basic tenants is applicable only to man it is because only man is without a moral structure of some sort. So for the good of society man has been constantly inundated with moral convictions, based on the current trend of human evolution, which, at least conceptual, is advancing at about 100 fold every generation, and basing the first transient moral structure set-up by Moses happened at around 6000b.c., so when the two are applied together one could assume that man has become part of the moral structure based on the amount of time that he has been subjugated by morality and the drastic increase in the cerebral abilities. Ergo it could be assumed that

[aesteval]

My moral compass is called repression. And I've got more than enough if you want to borrow some.

[psychovidd]

Yeah your moral compass is broken. Where are you? I am here at NP and you are not. Where are you Faith!!?

-Curtis