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DaveC426913 said:If something is subjective, how could it possbily be unethical to do it?
"What you're doing there is wrong in my opinion."
"It is not wrong in my opinion."
"You win. Your logic is inescapable."
Well ok, I'm going to go a bit extreme as an example, but here goes:
Murder is subjectively wrong, it has been decided by the MAJORITY of people that it is wrong. However, based on what you are saying, providing I decide it to be ethically right, whether in the case of a doctor and terminal patient or me taking revenge on someone who has wronged me, and accept that as it is only subjectively wrong, does that actually make it ethical, should I be allowed to do it purely because I don't judge it wrong?
Subjective views by the majority, form what we consider ethics. Therefore, if subjective things can be unethical.
Here are two articles I pulled with a quick google search:
http://artistthinker.wordpress.com/2006/02/21/gray-world/"
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=819274"
They both discuss why murder is wrong, socially and philosphically.
Jared
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