Re: Are Moral Rules Contingent on Strategy?
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Re: Are Moral Rules Contingent on Strategy?         


Author: Cormagh
Date: Jun 7, 2007 00:32

On Jun 5, 6:53 pm, darwinist gmail.com> wrote:
> Allow me to divide the world in two for a minute:
>
> Do you believe that:
> Murder is Just Plain Wrong,
> Or
> Murder is Wrong because .... (insert reasons that are not simply other
> moral rules).
>
> ?
>
> Examples in the latter category might be:
> - Murder is wrong because I want to live in a society where murder is
> rare and following/promoting this rule helps that to happen
> - Murder is wrong because it makes enemies where previously there were
> simply strangers
> - Murder is wrong because I want to be somewhere other than jail
> or the ever popular:
> - (D) all of the above.
> ...
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