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An immoral question?	Jon1667	06/29/03
Following on the question about The Ring of Gyges: Is the question, does morality pay off (or as Socrates put it, is justice profitable) an immoral question? Doesn't it suggest that the only reason for acting morally is that it pays off ("Honesty is the best policy.")? With the corollary that if it does not pay off, or, worse, if it is detrimental to the doer, then he is under no obligation to act morally? (By the way, this is one of the questions that professors of philosophy often ask in class.)
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ttalady		07/01/03
Morals, are they not of one's teachings? Beyond that of society, parents, even life, morals are of a belief. Call morals that of a church, political views, of a vegetarian, of a meat eater. Morals are all explained in one mind. Profesor, he he he... would it be moral for a hunter to not feel pain on a kill? Would it be moral for one that speaks of justice to have to let a murderer go? To be moral is not fair. To be moral all too often is to look beyond that and see a side that all too often teaches you more about life. To be moral "Is the right thing to do" with back-up. Does it work, no, not all the time. Does it make others think, most definately YES! Does having morals say that "I live by my teachings, not by my mistakes". Jen

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