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I'll let you think up your own examples of the many, many things that are called "immoral" but which, in actuality, do no harm to anyone.

2007-04-11 05:23:49 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Because it doesn't agree with the Bibble, of course.

Anything that doesn't agree with the Bibble and its several billion interpretations is immoral!

For example, some dude rewrote the Bibble a decade and a half after the original was written and changed the term "fornicators" to "homosexuals". The Bibble has beeen rewritten so many times I can't keep up! Every day a new spin is put on it by a fundie who reads literally the passages that agree with him or her, and take the ones that don't as metaphors! It's like The Neverending Story! Recently, one dear man informed me that the stoning of infants, wearing of poly-blends, and weddings of women to their rapists was metaphorical, but that Thomas proved Jesus existed by poking him in the side. Unbelievable! What a blast!

LOL. Ah, I certainly hope your point gets across, and I so appreciate it! ♥♥♥

2007-04-14 12:17:19 · answer #1 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 0 0

Define harm. To get scared shitless would maybe cause undue cardiac stress yet those of a mind to do so would consider such an act almost pleasurable and nothing like immoral. Cause the same stress with a cigarette and it's probably immoral - at least harmful. Do it with a joint and it pops back over to the moral and pleasurable side of the scale (except for legal considerations which may make it immoral to some). Prostitution? is anybody harmed in that? Is it even unpleasant? Immoral? I'm not seeing it. Slavery, sure, immoral and illegal by most worldly laws - except the bible (unless you damage the slaves teeth, then it's immoral - the damage, not the slavery).

I'm rambling in general agreement so I'll stop now.

2007-04-11 12:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

Morality is a set of values and rules that are agreed upon by at least one person. Most of the people in the world embrace a system of morality that includes not hurting people. Some systems stop there - for example, Wiccans follow the creed "An' it harm none, do as ye will"; for them, a thing can't be immoral unless it hurts someone.

But there's no rigid template for what must or must not be included in a moral framework. So if you want to say it's immoral to worship false idols, work on the sabbath, have sex with trees, or eat brussel sprouts, you can do that. Objectively speaking,Thou Shalt Not Eat Brussel Sprouts is no better or worse than Thou Shalt Not Kill.

Of course, your morals only apply to you. If you go around trying to make everybody else live by your own arbitrary set of morals, then you are an obnoxious nutjob who is just asking for a serious thrashing.

2007-04-11 19:45:16 · answer #3 · answered by abram.kelly 4 · 1 0

I agree. The Golden Rule, preached by Jesus, Confucius, and a lot of other moralists, boils down to, "Don't hurt anybody else, and nobody will have a reason to hurt you." That was the original idea behind the Constitution ('your right to swing your fist ends at my face') until the usual assortment of Prohibitionists, corporate fascists, and Puritans turned this country into a police state. (yes, we have the highest incarceration in the world).

Trouble is, there's a lot of control freaks out there who want to turn a lot of harmless things done by consenting adults into sin because it gives them more power. They want to ban things like oral and anal sex between consenting adults, tobacco use, marijuana use, alcohol use, gambling, dancing, changing your religion, eating meat on Friday, reading books on the Index of Forbidden Books, and--ultimately--thinking for yourself. If there's a dumb law or church rule that prohibits some private, consenting behavior, it's because some creep is probably making money or gaining a lot of political power in the process...

2007-04-11 12:51:43 · answer #4 · answered by crypto_the_unknown 4 · 4 0

It can't, however religious people hold the irrational belief that there is a conscious being who has an unhealthy obsession with our every day lives and can be offended by the most mundane of activities. To offend this imaginary magician is to cause him harm... therefore anything that annoys this creepy guy is immoral since it is causing him harm.

pity.

2007-04-11 12:29:40 · answer #5 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 6 1

If it doesn't harm anyone, I wouldn't consider it as immoral. Moral standards are set by different organizations in different countries/cultures... better make up your own.

2007-04-11 12:29:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

I would consider necrophilia to be immoral. Just being honest, who's it hurting? Probably no one. But still, immoral.

2007-04-11 12:29:58 · answer #7 · answered by chocobocharmer 3 · 3 0

im·mor·al /ɪˈmɔrəl, ɪˈmɒr-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-mawr-uhl, i-mor-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.
2. licentious or lascivious.

2007-04-11 12:30:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If it makes some insecure, conservative old man pucker up, it's hurting someone. Some boneheaded guy who's afraid of his daughter getting knocked up is liable to come up with some pretty whacky rules to prevent it, and, of course, have God help enforce it. And if it creeps out straight guys, then gay guys are out. It's all about the pucker.

2007-04-11 12:30:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

It might not be "immoral" but just the thought of two men together, praying, makes my skin crawl...

2007-04-11 12:43:14 · answer #10 · answered by Orac 4 · 3 0

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