CreateDebate Creates: Moral Precepts
Let's find out about the morals of this debate community. I challenge each person to try to come up with at least one sound, logically defenseable moral principle. When you come up with one, create a child debate for it so it can be either defended or ripped apart according to it's merits...or lack thereof.
Also..... Please don't argue here, just vote and post new ones if you come up with them.
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I have seen some really interesting people join this forum, be disappointed and then leave. These people primarily come here to share and be understood, they don't come here to be criticized or ridiculed. But people have opposing beliefs, and incidently sometimes they want to share why they think someone else is wrong. Each person is equally eager to demonstrate the truth of his words. Both want to be properly understood before accepting criticism, therefore neither part will listen non-judgementally to the other. Therefore conflict invariable escalates. The result is that no person gets his desire to be understood satisfied, and the debates are stuck from the very beginning. There's two major problems here. Far too often, people, myself included, assume that they are right, and the other person is wrong. And secondly, people spend time and energy far too rarely asking clarifying questions before disputing and criticising, i.e. people, also myself included, assume that they have completely understood what the other person is saying. There's one solution to both problems, and that is listening intently. I have said this before, but the best strategy for winning a debate is really trying to understand what oneself and the other person is saying. Often I don't understand either myself or the one I am talking to. So if I had to pick one moral precept it would be this: Spend more time listening and understanding than talking and commenting. 2
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It would be great if women understood the difference between misandry and feminism. www.createdebate.com/debate/show/Itwouldbegreatifwomenunderstoodthedifferencebetweenmisandryandfeminism
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I've had a similar discussion here before. I've had some time to streamline my beliefs. I prefer to use "intent" as a determinant of what is and isn't moral. In my view, (since our very codes of morality derive from our intuitive feelings of "right and wrong") the degree of consistency of the individual's intention to carry out (or not carry out) a given action is with their feelings of right and wrong should be the metric of what is and isn't moral. This puts levels of morality/immorality on a sort of sliding scale. 1
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