On 9/1/2012 7:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 31 Aug 2012, at 19:42, meekerdb wrote:
On 8/31/2012 1:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 30 Aug 2012, at 19:19, meekerdb wrote:
On 8/30/2012 10:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 29 Aug 2012, at 22:30, meekerdb wrote:
From experience I know people tend not to adopt it, but let me recommend a
distinction. Moral is what I expect of myself. Ethics is what I do and what I
hope other people will do in their interactions with other people. They of course
tend to overlap since I will be ashamed of myself if I cheat someone, so it's both
immoral and unethical. But they are not the same. If I spent my time smoking pot
and not working I'd be disappointed in myself, but it wouldn't be unethical.
I'm not sure I understand. "not working" wouldn't be immoral either. Disappointing,
yes, but immoral?
In my definition it would be immoral because I expect myself to work. It's
personal. It doesn't imply that it would be immoral for you to not work. But it
would be unethical for you to not work and to be supported by others. That's the
point of making a distinction between moral (consistent with personal values, 1P) and
ethical (consistent with social values, 3p).
OK, then I disagree (by which I mean that I am OK with you).
By "OK with you" I mean you are free to use personal definition orthogonal to the use
of the majority.
By "orthogonal" I mean ...
Hmm...
But it's not orthogonal, it's just at an slight angle. Do you see no distinction
between standards by which you judge yourself and those which by which society may
judge you?
i just don't understand what is moral or immoral in the fact of eating too much pizza
and not doing work. It might be stupid, but I don't see anything immoral.
To call it stupid is a value judgement. That's all I mean morals; having values about
your own actions so that you can recognize that sometimes you do stupid or bad things - by
your own standards - but which are not unethical because they have little or no effect on
other people. Maybe you can suggest a different word, but the morals/ethics distinction I
suggest seems close to common usage. And even if you want to keep the two words as
coextensive, it's still useful when someone refers to "immoral" to think whether he means
something he would regard as bad in himself (like enjoying some pot) or he means it harms
other people and should be discouraged by society.
Brent
Brent
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