Is one's Moral opinion better than another's?
This is an essay I'm doing for philosophy, and I was wondering what the bright minds of those on this forum think. This is opinion based, you are NOT right or wrong. Debate if you must, but it'd be appreciated if you were civil about it. Please have facts if you disagree with someone, and legitimate facts, not personal ones that include one person for that is not a sound argument.
I said "Nay" in my paper because I knew it was the harder of the two. I'm backing it up saying that other countries (other people's) moral perceptions are only DIFFERENT...not better for they are a functioning part of society. this is hard to defend because some societies do not function well, but are still part of a society. The key word here is "one's" opinion BETTER than another.
I gave examples of such societies as the Chinese who heat pennies (coins) on stoves and lay them on a child's back as a form of punishment (if they get bad grades for example). That is looked at as "discipline" there, but "abuse" here. Who's right? We got spankings...is that any better?
In small African villages, one child is everyone's child which means you can discipline that child as your own (for example: whipping them with a belt), and you are looked at as responsible. Americans see that also as abuse and disorderly conduct, since they are not your child, you have no rights to do such a thing. But are those villages any less than our own, in a Moral sense? Listening to one speaker that came from such a village, he portrayed it as more stable than our own, but I'm a very gullible person.
You're right, I have not witnessed these things myself, but trusted sources has stated these facts, which is why I believe them to be true.
I understand that is very shaky ground due to the fact that some people want to harm others and actually think it is right, but a majority of those people know it is wrong, yet they do it anyway. Technically the idea of "Morality" is there, they are just acting against it, which means it still exists. Those that do believe that they are doing the right thing, however, cast a shadow on the above argument.
This is an essay I'm doing for philosophy, and I was wondering what the bright minds of those on this forum think. This is opinion based, you are NOT right or wrong. Debate if you must, but it'd be appreciated if you were civil about it. Please have facts if you disagree with someone, and legitimate facts, not personal ones that include one person for that is not a sound argument.
I said "Nay" in my paper because I knew it was the harder of the two. I'm backing it up saying that other countries (other people's) moral perceptions are only DIFFERENT...not better for they are a functioning part of society. this is hard to defend because some societies do not function well, but are still part of a society. The key word here is "one's" opinion BETTER than another.
I gave examples of such societies as the Chinese who heat pennies (coins) on stoves and lay them on a child's back as a form of punishment (if they get bad grades for example). That is looked at as "discipline" there, but "abuse" here. Who's right? We got spankings...is that any better?
In small African villages, one child is everyone's child which means you can discipline that child as your own (for example: whipping them with a belt), and you are looked at as responsible. Americans see that also as abuse and disorderly conduct, since they are not your child, you have no rights to do such a thing. But are those villages any less than our own, in a Moral sense? Listening to one speaker that came from such a village, he portrayed it as more stable than our own, but I'm a very gullible person.
You're right, I have not witnessed these things myself, but trusted sources has stated these facts, which is why I believe them to be true.
I understand that is very shaky ground due to the fact that some people want to harm others and actually think it is right, but a majority of those people know it is wrong, yet they do it anyway. Technically the idea of "Morality" is there, they are just acting against it, which means it still exists. Those that do believe that they are doing the right thing, however, cast a shadow on the above argument.
