It is now the social fashion to believe in redemption and rehabilitation of violent criminals. One could also examine man's long history of warfare and wonder about the morality except that we have elevated warfare to an art.
On Mar 15, 5:56 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course. > > Specificaly I had the death penalty in mind. My stance puts such a > thing as immorral and unethical. I use reason deviod of emotional > attachment to reach such a stance, and my reasoning runs thusly: > > To kill a killer for the crime of killing another is engaging in the > same behaviour we initialy find repugnant in the killer, thus is > immoral. > > What then is the 'reason' why the majority of the world find murder > immorral? > > Choice. To kill another takes all choice from them. We can see in > this very age we find ourselves living in that the concept of > 'fairness' and equality of treatment is becoming more and more > important to the human beast. Our news is full of percived > unfairness, from race relations, to mysogony in the workplace. > > The application of emotion in decideing the morality of the death > penalty tend towards statments such as 'when they kill they losse all > rights'. Yet reason would show us that 'two wrongs don't make a > right'. > > On 12 Mar, 23:31, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > but only if they are acceptable to the > > > > rest of us. <<Manfraco > > > Really, I have a hard time understanding this. I take it that if my > > emotions are not acceptable to you and yours then it is deemed > > unacceptable? > > > By what right does anyone or any society have to determine that > > someone's emotions are not acceptable. > > > Of course I will reiterate my first reply. > > > Morality has a broad scope considering much of it is defined by > > society/culture/religion. Emotional attachment to a moral dilemma > > would have to be based on the defined moral incident specific to a > > circumstance. > > > I think we'd be better to work with a specific moral dilemma if we are > > going to establish the correctness of moral emotions and whether they > > should be kept in check or allowed to flow freely. > > > Anyone have an example of a moral dilemma? > > > Lee you started this so you should provide an example of what you were > > thinking about. > > > On Mar 12, 4:57 pm, Manfraco Frank Elder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Lee! > > > I believe that in a moral dilemma emotions must be kept in check by > > > reason, which is the base of acceptable human standard, therefore > > > emotions have a role in it; but only if they are acceptable to the > > > rest of us. > > > > On Mar 10, 1:46 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > So a though occoured to me yesterday. > > > > > Is it better to approach moraly dilemars in an emotionly unattached > > > > reasonable way, or do emotions have a role to play in moral questions?- > > > > Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
