2007-04-16 18:56:38 · 13 answers · asked by vik 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You are free to do anything you want to, if you're willing to suffer the consequences. Morals only function to prevent consequences, not actions.
Rock on.
2007-04-16 19:19:43 · answer #1 · answered by freebird 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Being morally responsible shouldn't make you feel like you are not free. People that are not morally responsible step on the freedom of others.
2007-04-17 02:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by Rizza 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free from what? I am free, not free from laws etc. but free to believe and free to think and in my country free to come and go as I please, I cannot go on to the Air force Base near my house, but within reason. And of course you are morally responsible for your behavior. Who else would be responsible? I mean the guy that shot up the college today and killed all those people who would he blame, his girlfriend, his mother, who? No one is to blame for what he did but him......what are you thinking when you ask that? You pay one way or another for your own decisions, here on earth or as the gun man today, maybe in hell.
2007-04-17 03:46:41 · answer #3 · answered by She Said 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Objective morals don't exist... I have morals but I created them, no one else is going to tell me what's good and bad because for all I know they are killing the planet and each other so let's not get into that...
But, yes, you can be free, as long as you allow yourself to let go of all the grips that stem from other people although it would be ideal obviously if you didn't bother other people in doing what your heart wants, especially if they don't want it (like killing them etc... not consensual obviously)... you are responsible for your behaviour only because it is your behaviour but if by "morally responsible" you mean that you'd be judged by god and condemned to hell then, if you want, you can forget all that because it's made of pure nonsense (or at the very least with no reason imbued).
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
2007-04-17 02:28:54 · answer #4 · answered by Seyfert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Morally or not - yes we are responsible for our behaviour and must deal with the consequences. That's how we learn, hopefully. And that's what eventually makes us free, of guilt and gods and all that stuff. We create a moral compass within, without external dogma, and because we own it, we can live it, and the consequences, as a well-tuned harp makes music.
2007-04-17 02:08:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are free to choose between alternatives. You are ever responsible for your behavior.
2007-04-17 05:07:27 · answer #6 · answered by nagarajan s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are always responsible for your behavior -- you, and only you.
Freedom is a state of mind. It means nothing. Freedom from physical slavery? Many forms of physicaly slavery are Heaven compared to the mental slavery faced by many Americans! Mental slavery? The slavery of hunger and want of a higher quality of life is the most consuming, one might say. What do you call slavery? Therefore, what is freedom? You could say many of us are never free from ourself; from our own mind and all its vicious realities. Freedom is a stupid word, and a bit nihilistic in use. Freedom means nothing. Happiness, or satisfaction, is the key.
2007-04-17 07:48:48 · answer #7 · answered by Pearl Jam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
can i ever be free?
* Can you ever be binded?
am i ever morally responsible for my behavior?
** are you not morally responsible for your behavior?
*** if your answer of * & ** are yes, it will sound illogical.
**** Think from an opposite side.
Cheers
Yee Cs
2007-04-17 02:44:38 · answer #8 · answered by jACKSON 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that I am fully responsible for my behavior, including involuntary responses, because I believe that what I do matters, for better or worse.
As for freedom -- "Freedom means choosing your burden."* I do not think you can 'free' yourself from your own behavior, you can only learn from it.
2007-04-20 22:12:19 · answer #9 · answered by subatomicdoc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You can be free.
Yes. You are always responsible for your behavior.
2007-04-17 02:06:58 · answer #10 · answered by Nathan D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋