Do you find it amusing when people ask what is good or bad?

Question

So If I slit your throat, what would you think? What if I shot your brains out?

Doesn't good or bad depend on your values? If I value life, i would think it's wrong to slit your thoat...

Answer 1

By posing it as a morality issue, they are really only asking what people think about it. They are checking their own feelings with the feelings of others, because it is oftentimes dangerous to express feelings which deviate substantial for the common viewpoint. Understanding and empathizing with social norms allows one's perspective to be framed in acceptable ways.

They are also evaluating the basis for social norms for predictability and for consistency, while ensuring that their own basis is more firmly grounded. They are looking for reasons to believe that others are rational in believing things which seem so irrational.

Instead of asking "Is this good or bad .." questions, I tend to ask, "How do you feel about .. " or "Why do you feel [a certain way] .. " questions. Before Yahoo Answers, I really didn't understand society in general, but now thanks to this wonderful service and good people, I'm starting to see some rationality and understand the popular basis for traditions and common practices and understandings; not that I agree with them, but at least now I can understand them.

And then there are those who are just trying to make a statement and aren't teachable at all: Making statements appear as questions, dress wolves in sheep's clothing.

Answer 2

The point is not on your values in that situation, but the other person's. Just because you are suicidal, does not mean it's ok to kill everyone else. If the person you are killing values their life, then yes, it is wrong. And I'd say 99% of the population would want to live in that situation, and not have thier throat slit (yes, even the depressed. I think that being suicidal is still not the same as letting anyone kill you.)

Answer 3

what i realized yesterday is that yes, a lot of the questions on here are like that because they come from young people.
Young people don't understand the common frame of reference, so they cannot operate in it. They are simply trying to understand a common frame of reference. Of course they cannot master it yet if they don't even know it. One cannot really operate outside it in a society. THey are just trying to get the ground rules straight. It's normal.

Answer 4

Read Nightmare's Academy for all your answers its by Frank Perreti (check spelling on last name*) hes an awesome writer of thriller books and the book is set in an academy where they make their own perception of good and bad itsll answer your questions its a great book.

Answer 5

Senor Robiticco. I find it amusing that people claim to believe
in an Almighty God, and go to every one else for help!
I find it amusing that they scream hallelujah, and when it
comes time to go, they are scared to death, and hang on,and hang on.
Look at all the good work Michael Landon did on Highway to Heaven. And when he was ready to pass on, he hired every psychic and witchdoctor he could find to stay alive. Maybe he
didn't want to leave his family?
ME, NO COMPRENDE?

Answer 6

Especially when they say it is ABSOLUTE. Stealing is wrong... yet I have had several tell me they would steal a loaf of bread if their kid was starving... as it is even more bad (their words, not mine) to watch a kid starve than it is to steal. They claim these things are not open to discussion, yet when faced with REAL LIFE problems, they suddenly find ways to justify it.

Answer 7

Thats actually pretty scary.Some people really have problems and doing bad things dont affect them as it would a normal person. when you do somethign bad we all should have a con and some people dont.

Answer 8

God gave everyone a conscious to know between good and bad.

Answer 9

From the mouths of robots come wisdom

Answer 10

Your head smells like a puppy!!!