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About Christian faith and current non-Christian ethics. Yes, they are not Christian anymore, but that does not mean it has not influence on current ethics. …

I'm asking this because I can't see the distinction between deontology and consequentialism (assuming "You must try for best outcome" is a rule) or virtue ethics. … I'm rather seeing (consequentialism ∪ virtue ethics) ⊂ deontology. …

In fact they are not as different as many people think: Every rule have been estabilished to be so in either of following reasons: On a whim of ethics creators. … Ethics creators followed some purpose. In case of 1 we do not have any reason to accept such ethics as we also could use the argument "I want another ethics". …

People might think this is connected to fear of rejection. This is not about rejection. See the folowing reasoning. If you smell bad, you will produce rejection. But all of these are about aesthetics. …

At first, it is you who somewhy draws a line between "us" and "them". And it seems the criterion is only one: "they" are artificial and "we" are natural. And this line is completely unnecessary. It do …

I see that majority of adults are trying to hide the notions of sex from minors. Both parents from their children and legislators from all children through various laws. I also see some critique towar …

I've read wikipedia's article on pragmatic ethics and it does not produce any norms. … If there are such theories (which do not completely belong to any other groups like deontology, virtue ethics, etc.), what are the most notable of them? …

To me the question given in the title is uninteresting as I refuse to think in moral terms. However, the really interesting question one can answer is How to persuade someone that something is not …

What I mean is that no one deserves punishment. Each time someone is imprisoned or punished in different ways, it is not a win, but always a loss. In particular, lack of technology. In particular, lac …

I heard about Kant's reasoning that lying that you return money or about the leads to contradiction in conception. But how could he even prove that lying under any circumstances leads to contradictio …

By a moral dilemma I mean a situation in which there are multiple possible courses of action (or inaction) each of which leads to different outcomes and the agent has to choose which one to take. The …

Previous accepted by academics moral philosophy is virtue ethics, but it was kind of forgotten by the time when Kant lived. …

Suppose the following maxim. Goal: satisfy basic needs: food, water, sleep, etc. Method: having a specialization, getting money for work, spend money to satisfy basic needs. Conditions: capitalism, …

The logic seems to be that if you drive fast, there is a (considerably) higher probability that you will end up in an accident, which could hurt others, hence you need to be punished. I have emph …

I don't belong to the group of youths, but one does not need to belong to the particular group in order to defend their interests, like in the case of animal rights movements. Also, I belonged to it, …