Reply #25: Actually, I understand [View All]

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much better than you. I simply don't accept your definition.

Let me give you another example. In the 50s and 60s, Southerners morals included 'keeping blacks in their place'. They thought this was necessary to protect their pure, white women. This was their culture, and it was changed, by force, by outsiders.

So, following your definition, and logic, were they moral to do so??

Yes, or no.

On edit: Think of the "ethics" of that clown Peter Singer, who is coming up with "ethical" reasons to "abort" children after they are born

These are the definitions that I am using.


From Dictionary.com

n.
A concisely expressed precept or general truth; a maxim.

morals Rules or habits of conduct ... with reference to standards of right and wrong: a person of loose morals; a decline in the public morals.



ethics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession: medical ethics.