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Originally posted by Arioch
i actually have alot of strict morals including what i consider right and wrong, and what i wont do as opposed to doing because its right. But very little of those said morals are based on my specific religious standpoint. They are based on common sense, and my own inherent political beliefs in not harming or oppressing any other human beings rights.....
Did that make sense? It made sense in my head.....ah well....
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A lot of sense to me... Sometimes we do what we want, sometimes we do what we have to...
I had promised some writings on the subjects... My fav is certainly An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, by David Hume. Sir Francis Hutcheson has some interesting works on it too... But you guys should keep in mind that they wrote in the 18th century before just go out there badmouthing them... Some (quite) different points of view from different times can be found in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil and Genealogy of Moral, Sartre's L'Être et le Néant (sorry, forgot the title in English) and... I'd better stop, I don't think anyone will read much of this anyway... LoL