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I see.
Damn This Elijah Walter guy really has some time to waste before he gets to the point...
Let's take a quote from the site you linked to :"Morals, quite simply, are beliefs about right and wrong conduct."
I'm afraid you might be wrong on this one. It is amoral, because I hold this conduct in my framework of values wrong. It's not unethical, since A.) I don't present a "a systemic and reasoned basis for making statements" (Quoted from the site you linked) and B.) it is not unaccepted by our culture our a wider group.
But I'm going to use you own quote if I may:
"...[ethics] is used more narrowly to mean the moral principles of a particular tradition, group, or individual. ..."
(-- John Deigh in Robert Audi (ed), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 1995])
So to sum it up ethics is more like a rigid widely accepted framework while morality is what you hold for good or bad. Morals is what I believe to be wrong.
And it's exactly what I meant. It's not unethical, since the general population has no problem with it, but in my eyes it's immoral, since I hold it for bad.
But I put it more softly, if you read my last sentence, I didn't go as far to say it's immoral, I called it amoral. With which I wanted to say, that southord probably did not think too much about whether it's right or wrong, just did it. (Thus their decision was from their point of view amoral (but not
immoral.)
I have to ask, and please don't take it the bad way, I mean no offence
: did you even read the site you linked to and the quotation you provided?
Here's a more straightforward explanation:
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Ethics_vs_MoralsPlease read the first part.
And read this:
http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2010/1 ... thics.htmlYou find it summed up no too badly there: "Morality is primarily about making the correct choices, while ethics is about proper reasoning."
There is an interesting thought experiment for those who are not too familiar with this branch of philosophy: the "trolley problem"
But actually:
It's not really important whether it's amoral or immoral or moral, ethical unethical. What I meant to say, and maybe I put it the wrong way: is that I personally dislike this practice. (So I think it was immoral
)
But thank you escher, I haven't had such an interesting discourse about ethics morality and this general branch of philosophy in a while
I greatly enjoyed reading up on the topic again and never expected to talk about it here:)
To infinity... and beyond!
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