As a person with extensive experience in both news media and education, I know there is a highly organized smear campaign being conducted against our public schools and their teachers. I know it is false, and I have the evidence it is false. It is being done purely for private profit, and it is doing serious damage to our children.
I think that is damned immoral - with emphases on both damned and immoral'
I've been making my way through Michael Pollan's wonderful book The Omnivore's Dilemma for the past month or so, and I've got to a point where I just don't see eye to eye with his opinion: vegetarianism.
Is the killing of other animals for our dietary preferences moral? He makes the case that as moral beings, it is up to humans to treat animals as if they have as much of a right to life as any of us, and that since we are not nutritionally dependent on meat-eating, we should change our ways.
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If I may ask something please..... Could we please have just your personal definitions and or understanding of the morality and ethics and the differences between these two concepts.
For those that are of the "christian" persuasion would you please also contribute a comment or two on what you feel the term "christian morality" and "christian ethics" would mean.
It is a common belief among many Christian enthusiasts that all morality comes from the bible and that morality cannot exist without it. I have personally been asked by a person of religious persuasion that if I don't believe in the bible then where do I get my morals from if I had any? I found this question extremely interesting, not because he had a good argument, but because it was fuelled by sheer arrogance. I find it curious how many people are so quick to judge once they find out you are a non-believer. They assume that my ethical and mo
What's more important, virtue or kindness? Who's better, a pure virtuous person or kind compassionate person?
If one person is very good & pure but occasionally has a mean streak, and another has lots of sex but is really nice, who's the better christian?
I was watching Doubt (Meryl Streep) and the priest said it's possible to kill kindness in the name of virtue. That's the origin of this question. Feel free to define what virtuous, pure or kind mean to you.
For those of you who would self-identify as Christian - do you find yourself 'shaped' more (in a moral formation sense) by the bible or by prevailing moral culture (i.e. what secular society values as good/moral)? I'm not saying they don't overlap - they certainly do - but they aren't always in agreement by any means. If there's a conflict between them (real or perceived), how do you go about deciding between them? Do you wish one shaped you more, or less?
Or do I even have my question wrong? :') Let's hear what you think.
Here's a question that has been floating around in my head for a while:
For those who would call themselves atheists/agnostics/freethinkers - What is the philosophical foundation of your morality? That is to say... why BE good? How do you know what good is? Does good/evil, right/wrong even exist?
If you have a moral system, where does it come from? What justifies it's form and existence?
