What makes an action right? Turn it around and ask yourself what makes an action wrong. Certainly, right is not pleasure nor wrong pain. Pleasure and pain are purely subjective experiences that arise from an individual's tastes and experiences. The funny thing is that all intelectual game...
Hmm. Both interesting replies. Njorl is playing the devils advocate but has mysteriously ended up on the side of "god". Ironic that. It does seem that community requires the active participation of all its members. Not sure that I believe that "people" are not educated/enlightened enough to...
I am currently working on an essay about evil. My basic premise is that evil is only meaningful in the context of community. That is, evil is defined as an action or event that works to the detriment of some predefined community. I am trying to show that many of the problems that our species...