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moralization and amoralization
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| Do you judges behavior in terms of preference or in terms of value? Are you butcher for health reasons or for moral reasons? | |
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| Some behaviors have been amoralized, such as atheism. In the same fashion we are working to moralize new ones, such as killing in self-defense. | |
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Concepts of the sacred and the taboo
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| It is in the very nature of our commitments to other people to deny that we can put a price on them. Taboo tradeoffs are “morally corrosive" | |
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| Unfortunately, a psychology that attribute infinite value to sacred concepts can lead to absurdities. Many lives can be saved if drugs were legalized and regulated. | |
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The ruthless classification of the human moral sense
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| The moral sense, amplified and extended by reasoning and a knowledge of history, is what stands between us and a ruthless psychopaths. | |
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| There is still much to be wary of in human moralizing... Hitler was a convinced moralist! As Buruma wrote "...true believers can be more dangerous than cynical operators." | |
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