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4:57 pm - Saturday, August 26, 2006

Readings make me really mad sometimes.

This particular one I'm doing at the moment starts off explaining how ethics and morality have nothing to do with religion. Then it goes on to proclaim that everything is relative (so if I think morality has to do with religion it is? How it then not be, if it is?).

Not only this but after that he/she goes on to say the code of ethics is based on the Biblical principal 'love your neighbour as yourself' and universal law.

Quote: Ethics requires us to go beyond the 'I' and 'you' to the universal law, the universalisable judgment, the standpoint of the impartial spectator...

I mean really. Did you put any thought into it when you were writing this?

Up, up, up and away!!

7 Bludgers' annotations:

Blogger Catie said...

Problematic it's true... that does sound rather contradictory to me

- 28/8/06 3:49 pm
Blogger Minerva said...

Yes ethics is crazy. No comment.

- 28/8/06 11:11 pm
Blogger Ang said...

Well kind of relative. I'd kill one person to save a hundred, even though I think Killing people is wrong.

Or at least I'd like to think I would.

- 29/8/06 6:48 pm
Blogger Vivian said...

Apparently that is called utilitarianism? or something

We've just finished our series of lectures on ethics too...

- 29/8/06 7:21 pm
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- 29/8/06 7:26 pm
Blogger Vivian said...

And according to our lecture, the scenario of killing one person to save a hundred is ethically wrong.

But then again that lecturer contradicted himself too, he's like, you can't impose your own beliefs on someone else, but pretty much spent the whole lecture doing so, on issues of abortion, stem cell research....

Grrrr...

- 29/8/06 7:27 pm
Blogger Ang said...

Ha. Your lecturer is a giant poo, is what.

- 29/8/06 9:12 pm


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