Ethics
From Chains of Reason
Chains > Ethics
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Abortion
Chain 17: Abortion is immoral.
Chain 23: Abortion is not immoral
The death penalty
Chain 24: The death penalty is immoral.
Chain 25: The death penalty for those who commit murder is not immoral.
Free will and moral responsibility
Chain 15: Moral responsibility requires free will.
Chain 16: Moral responsibility does not require free will.
Meta-ethics
Chain 27: Moral laws are not laws of nature.
Chain 28: Morality could be purely a creation of the human mind.
Chain 29: The 'moral emotions', such as guilt and empathy, are not the product of morality.
Chain 30: The morality or immorality of a person's actions depends on not just whether the act is in accordance moral rules, but also the person's motivation.
Chain 31: The morality or immorality of a person's actions depends on not just whether the act is in accordance moral rules, but also the person's motivation.
Uncategorised
Chain 57: The degree and extent of human suffering in the world could be far less without reducing the amount of saintly or heroic action in the world.
Chain 58: A world without human suffering is morally preferable to this world, in which there is human suffering, even though the former would lack the acts of extreme moral goodness, performed by saints and heroes, that occur in this world.
