I was just wondering what is your opinion of the extent of moral obligation to other people and other living things? Do you always have to follow through on your word no matter what? Do you always have to follow through on a respnsibility?
2007-09-17 14:53:44 · 4 answers · asked by Venessa B 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
well, if you want people not to get mad at you, its good to keep your word and be responsible. But if you don't care one bit about what others think of you or their feelings, then you can do whatever you want. Of course, thats talking about the small scale stuff like the way you interact with other people. If you're talking about moral responibility in the BIG picture of the universe, then it depends on whether any religion is true or not. If a religion's beliefs are true then everyone is obligated to behave in accordance with it or else they'll be punished by God/the gods. If there is no God or gods, then anyone can do whatever they want and in the grand scheme of things...once they're dead and everyone that knows them is dead and so on...nothing matters.
2007-09-17 15:08:11 · answer #1 · answered by egn18s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no moral obligation unless there is a God. People invent rules and then try to convince us that we have a moral obligation to follow them but we don't. Without God one set of rules is just as valid as another.
Most people behave as they do because of some feeling that they get but we can't be obligated to a feeling.
We might behave in a socially acceptable fashion because we want to live in a civilized society, for example, but that also is not an obligation. We have no obligation to keep such an arrangement.
2007-09-17 22:37:50 · answer #2 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What an impressive question! finally something extra that pseudophilosophical ****. except we carry some variety of ethical maxim (in many cases, that is God) into the photograph, there is not any ethical criminal accountability. no rely if we like it or no longer, we would ought to settle for that morality fairly is relative and is a social build. So in this sense, i do no longer think of that we've any reason for being altruistic in a real experience. whether, that may no longer to assert that i'm for what objectivists pursue. i think of we do have particular intrinsically altruistic high quality in us. It probably have developed to proceed to exist extra perfect in a team, yet that would not degrade what altruism is. So in end, we've not got any ethical criminal accountability to be altruistic, yet i think of that there are some altruistic high quality in us.
2016-10-18 22:57:49 · answer #3 · answered by riva 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always try to do my best and I don't like to make promises that I have no intention of keeping. It's a lot easier to be honest in the beginning rather than lie. I don't always have to follow through on a responsiblity but I have this horrible fear of not being seen as a hard worker. And of course there's the golden rule...do unto others...
2007-09-17 15:09:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋