Timeline for How do we judge if an action is moral or not if there are competing frameworks by which we judge them?
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| Aug 20, 2022 at 12:15 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @haxor789: There is no legal code or moral code that has had the assent of people over an extended period of time that has declared murder to be lawful. Otherwise sanctioned acts of killing are named as other categories because they are seen as apart from this. This includes killings in the line of duty by police or soldiers in battle or ritual sacrifice as say by the Aztecs. We do not call it murder. Those that do have an issue with the underlying rationale. You might think this is being "weasel" with words but it is not. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 6:38 | comment | added | haxor789 | But at that point it's already far from "obvious" and the ability to readily cast an action as wrong. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 1:22 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | @haxor789 so filter out the pathological examples. Make the exceptions that are justified by the circumstances. | |
| Jul 29, 2022 at 6:46 | comment | added | haxor789 | Is it that obvious? I mean an obvious moral would imply some sort of ethics (how you should act) but for every possible ethic you could probably find a series of pathological examples where it's either unclear or where you'd have to make exceptions to it and not just one but many. | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 15:08 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | @haxor789 But, if they said that, they would be wrong. It seems like we are searching everywhere for the ground under our feet. It's just obvious, and some people are just wrong. | |
| Jun 28, 2022 at 12:37 | comment | added | haxor789 | "All ethical frameworks say that murder is wrong, for example." Sure about that? There seem to be quite a few who would weasel around by not calling it murder if officials (soldiers, police) do it or if it's part of a ritual sacrifice or whatnot. | |
| Jun 28, 2022 at 11:02 | history | answered | Mozibur Ullah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |