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Moral Responsibility (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by ddrcrono@lemmy.ca to c/actual_discussion@lemmy.ca

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Open question: What do you think a normal person's moral responsibilities are and why?

Some angles you can (but don't have to) consider:

To themselves, family, friends and strangers?

Do you have thoughts about what it takes to make a good person or at what point someone is a bad person? (Is there a category of people who are neither?)

What do you think the default state of people is? (Generally good, evil or neutral by nature?)

Conversely do you believe morality is a construction and reject it entirely? (Even practically speaking when something bad happens to you?)

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[–] shani66@ani.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's constructed because we can't find it just lying around out in the world, it's something humans had to come up with. Preferably everyone constructs their own. Yes morality has benefits, the broadest being social control (although that could be argued to be a bad thing), more individually morals could help people make choices in difficult situations.

[–] ddrcrono@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

I think you might find "evolutionary ethics" to be interesting - it's probably the biggest new theory in ethics in the last few hundred years. Really interesting stuff.

Not deeply studied but some very early pre-linguistic studies showing babies only a few months old essentially having something resembling a concept of fairness/justice/trust. The idea is essentially that much like language most people have at least some very general moral predispositions. Really fascinating stuff.