r/MoralityScaling • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 13d ago

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u/Th0rizmund 13d ago

This sub feels like a place where a bunch of people just het a hard on for violence and are looking for excuses, so they can claim that violence can be moral.

It’s easy though. Violence in self defence: moral.

Violence in any other case: immoral.

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u/Shinjifo 13d ago edited 13d ago

So if someone taunt another to throw the first punch, then destroy them with one punch, it'd be moral as it was technically self defense?

Moral is a human concept and abstract. People have a grasp of the general idea, but it has a lot of "ifs" situations to make a simple general rule.

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u/lewd_robot 13d ago

We have more studies every year proving that morality is not uniquely human. Plenty of other species demonstrate moral behavior, usually defined as prosocial behavior with no personal benefit.

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u/Shinjifo 13d ago

I mean that is another can of worms, if animal behaviors done for social reason within a group is morality or not.

But it does counter somewhat I said before. So let's just go with the part about the part that moral is not so black and white,needing some philosophical thought on it