Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Crisis at the loss of morality
When people lose their sense of good and bad they undergo a crisis. But they act the same way regardless. It has been said that with God dead then everything is permitted, even murder. Only the murderer would argue to themselves this way. The next person would say, ‘yes, everything is permitted’ but I still have no desire to kill therefore I won’t.
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Normal people have mirror neurons which prevent them from doing harm to other people because they feel the pain themselves.
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Psychopaths (about 4 per cent of us) lack these mirror neurons and they kill and torture if it appears convenient to them. So we have to stop them by making sure that certain behaviour does NOT appear convenient to them.
Maybe. The point I'm making here though is that our professed moral values are something quite different to our actual behaviour. People fear moral relativism because they think that holding such views will turn people into murderers and cheats. I do not think this is the case. Murderers and cheats will behave just the same as they always did - only in an age of moral relativism they will not have to fell unjustified in the way they did before.
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