Re:Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe
by azinman2 on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:11PM
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And that One True Morality is from the Enlightenment? Humans have existed a lot longer than the Enlightenment and battled with ideals of morality throughout the ages. To suggest that there's somehow a single philosophy that's correct is quite pompous.
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Re:Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe
by AllegedAlec on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:14AM
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> And that One True Morality is from the Enlightenment
Probably not, because anything human will only be an approximation. It's probably a whole damn closer than the Chinese morality though.
> To suggest that there's somehow a single philosophy that's correct is quite pompous. Why? In science we accept that there's one true way that any process can be described. Others might be entirely wrong (theory of Humors), or partially wrong, but useful (Newtonian physics). Why is the notion that there's on true moral framework so outlandish?
Re:Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe
by emptysongglass on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:39AM
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No living creature enjoys suffering therefore do no action of intent which causes suffering to any other living thing. That's the One True Morality and every person can measure it for themselves because all of us is directly connected to suffering.
It's not pompous, it's reasonable, as in it's a deduction that anyone can make for themselves with the reason they have, applied to the vessel they were born with.