Board 8 > Do you believe right and wrong exist?

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If so how is it decided?
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We generally post moral statements in a declarative form on GameFAQs with polls in order to determine the validity of a statement in an ethical sense. The poll options are "True", "False" and "Crazyisgood".
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Intrinsically no, but they do exist and have value as societal constructs. It's not hard to suss out, for example, that causing harm to your fellow humans isn't cool as a member of human society. If you want to play the RULES OF NATURE card, that's fine, but don't expect to still be welcomed as a member of civilization.
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Xiahou Shake posted...

Intrinsically no, but they do exist and have value as societal constructs. It's not hard to suss out, for example, that causing harm to your fellow humans isn't cool as a member of human society. If you want to play the RULES OF NATURE card, that's fine, but don't expect to still be welcomed as a member of civilization.

This
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Yes, but society as a collective decides them, and they may change over time.

Yes
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I'm a math teacher, so yes.
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absolute truth exists, and so the ability to be right or wrong must also exist.
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well AKSHUALY the quantum world is non-deterministic and not necessarily real so that means all of reality is a lie and nothing matters ever and if i add 2 and 2 together nothing says a fish wont flop onto my desk as the answer!!

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NFUN posted...

well AKSHUALY the quantum world is non-deterministic and not necessarily real so that means all of reality is a lie and nothing matters ever and if i add 2 and 2 together nothing says a fish wont flop onto my desk as the answer!!

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if absolute truth doesn't exist, then it's an absolute truth that absolute truth doesn't exist

therefore, absolute truth must exist
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and if you disagree you are wrong

therefore, right and wrong must also exist
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Society decides what is right and wrong, yet people have feelings about what is right and wrong, too....and you could say that what society's decisions on right and wrong are a combination of their own feelings along with what is best for society.

So the question is this: could your feelings be based on truth? That's what it comes down to, I think.
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Your feelings could be based on truth for how best to manage a society, but not any universal truth
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Yeah... feelings are largely based on survival of the fittest, anyway. Without some sort of higher power, it's really difficult to argue for a universal right or wrong.
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"Right" is what's good for you, your family, your people. "Wrong" is what's harmful to them.

Therefore, any politician bringing harm to his country's people is evil and the people are morally justified in removing him.
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Vlado posted...

Therefore, any politician bringing harm to his country's people is evil

Unless he's bringing good to you or your family
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Vlado posted...

"Right" is what's good for you, your family, your people. "Wrong" is what's harmful to them.

Therefore, any politician bringing harm to his country's people is evil and the people are morally justified in removing him.

Like executing drug dealers for example
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its right if it suits your needs/desires and wrong when it goes against what you want.
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right is ---->
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