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Originally posted by josephw
Do you mean by "assigned" that people [b]judge others as rapists and murderers, declaring them guilty before an "automatic" moral standard?[/b]
No.

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Some actions do indeed have automatic moral value,......but this automatic (ingrained) moral value is still assigned by people.
Could you give me an example of an action that has automatic moral value?

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
No.
Please clarify what you mean by 'some actions have automatic moral value'?

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
No.
Then say what you mean.


Did you give up?

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Originally posted by josephw
Did you give up?
Well, at 4am in the morning (GMT) I was actually sleeping. Does that qualify as giving up?

Some moral codes are automatic within us (don't require thinking about). The obvious one being 'murder is wrong.' Although automatic, like walking, it still requires learning at some early stage in our lives. (When it becomes part of our core morality).


Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Well, at 4am in the morning (GMT) I was actually sleeping. Does that qualify as giving up?

Some moral codes are automatic within us (don't require thinking about). The obvious one being 'murder is wrong.' Although automatic, like walking, it still requires learning at some early stage in our lives. (When it becomes part of our core morality).
An example please?


Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
An example please?
Good God man I gave one. Do you seriously not read posts?!

I said ' The obvious one being 'murder is wrong.'

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I love these threads where FMJ quietly crawls under a rock.

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Well, at 4am in the morning (GMT) I was actually sleeping. Does that qualify as giving up?

Some moral codes are automatic within us (don't require thinking about). The obvious one being 'murder is wrong.' Although automatic, like walking, it still requires learning at some early stage in our lives. (When it becomes part of our core morality).
So you are saying that everyone knows that murder is wrong without having to think about it but it still requires 'learning'? 🙄

If you have to 'learn' it then it's not automatic.


Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
So you are saying that everyone knows that murder is wrong without having to think about it but it still requires 'learning'? 🙄

If you have to 'learn' it then it's not automatic.
And if you grow up in a society of cannibalism will the 'learning' you do there also enable you to know that murder is wrong 'without thinking'?


Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I love these threads where FMJ quietly crawls under a rock.
Maybe I was quietly crawling under a rock to look for you after you had snuck off. 😉

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Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
So you are saying that everyone knows that murder is wrong without having to think about it but it still requires 'learning'? 🙄

If you have to 'learn' it then it's not automatic.
No, I did not say that. (Blimey, i've said that to you a few times).

Did you learn to walk? Is walking now automatic?

If you hadn't learned to walk, would walking now be automatic?

Sheesh.

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Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
No, I did not say that. (Blimey, i've said that to you a few times).

Did you learn to walk? Is walking now automatic?

If you hadn't learned to walk, would walking now be automatic?

Sheesh.
My daughter started walking at 10 months, I didn't have to teach her. It happened automatically. What is your point? How does this relate to us learning that murder is wrong without having to think about it?

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Originally posted by Fetchmyjunk
And if you grow up in a society of cannibalism will the 'learning' you do there also enable you to know that murder is wrong 'without thinking'?
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