tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post413824998889931286..comments2024-03-25T14:27:40.121-05:00Comments on Heart, Mind, Soul, and Strength: Is there a basis for moral reasoning?Weekend Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-52566900706529875762017-10-23T18:43:09.868-05:002017-10-23T18:43:09.868-05:00I see you. :-)
Things are good. We got Irma, whic...I see you. :-)<br /><br />Things are good. We got Irma, which was worlds less brutal than Harvey. I'm still cleaning and having things cleaned, but all yard and shed work. The house fared much better. The rest of life is still a struggle, but that's just situation normal. Right now things seem about as good as they can get.<br /><br />I hope you're doing as well or better!Kevin Knoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788817477327510023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-83808616352393628022017-10-22T21:17:44.063-05:002017-10-22T21:17:44.063-05:00Hey Kevin
I stumbled across your comment tonight ...Hey Kevin<br /><br />I stumbled across your comment tonight as I was getting a post ready, and wanted you to know I'd found it. Glad to see you, & didn't know I was keeping you waiting. Sadly, now that I know, I'm going to keep you waiting a little longer because there are some good puzzles in there and it deserves better than an off-the-cuff reply crammed into a comment box. I'll let those thoughts marinate for awhile. In the meantime, (wonder if you'll see this?) -- how have you been? <br /><br />Take care & God bless<br />Anne / WF<br />Weekend Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-42975484173162913942017-09-16T20:30:51.455-05:002017-09-16T20:30:51.455-05:00Hello WF!
I've been thinking about this serie...Hello WF!<br /><br />I've been thinking about this series you're doing, and I saw a similar question come up on Facebook. You are a very complete thinker, but I'm more of a broad strokes kind of guy. I'll just put it out here.<br /><br />There is only one question pertinent to the discussion of intrinsic morality. Do you believe everyone else's life is as valuable as your own?<br /><br />When we're born, the answer is simply no. All of us are born with a very strong experience of our own lives and pain and joys and no experience of anyone else's. The world exists to help and hurt me. People exist to feed and train me. Everything is my toy or my obstacle, and I interact with all of it to my own benefit. Some children find it best to obey while others go their own way, no matter how painful their parents may make that decision. All children, though, are doing what makes their lives work best for them. This goes on for years.<br /><br />We're all born narcissists.<br /><br />As we age we hurt people and are hurt ourselves. Along the way those pains may open our eyes and we may begin to figure out other people's hurts are as important as our own. If this happens, we may become caring people in place of our native narcissism. Or we may not. Many of us never move beyond that native narcissism. They just get better at acting acceptably to get the things they want.<br /><br />Given those two groups of people exist on some spectrum, their vocabulary is almost impossible to tease apart. All their words have different meanings, but nearly the exact same usage. A "friend" will refer to a person of special relationship and both groups will make sacrifices for a friend, but the underlying cost the narcissist is willing to pay is vastly different from the caring person. Even the word, "care" takes on different meaning. Only when the value of the relationship drops to zero can you hope to know whether the parties are narcissists or not -- and even then a hard relationship can have twisted value if a narcissist draws self-worth from the perception of being a good person for hanging tough with it. It's too hard to measure.<br /><br />The one question, though, we must answer before we can talk about intrinsic morality is, "Is my pain more important to me than anyone else's?" If the answer is no, then all morality is intrinsic and we need no laws. If the answer is yes, no morality is intrinsic and every law is a tool to give the weak a fighting chance in this dog-eat-dog world.Kevin Knoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788817477327510023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-23989409401412233862017-08-13T14:28:58.047-05:002017-08-13T14:28:58.047-05:00Hoping to ...
Take care & God bless
Anne / W...Hoping to ... <br /><br />Take care & God bless<br />Anne / WF<br />Weekend Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425001168670801073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15860677.post-86818270689278636202017-08-06T18:07:25.214-05:002017-08-06T18:07:25.214-05:00Now you're getting deep!Now you're getting deep!Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.com