Sunday, December 7, 2008

amorality and amoralists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorality

How in an amoral life can one think of anything as 'good' or 'bad'? Furthermore, it seems to me that since human beings have the capacity to value, and thus we have opinions of what "ought to be," being human precludes the condition of being amoral.

Rocks are amoral. Nothing rocks "do" can be considered right or wrong in any sense of the words.

I suspect "amoralists" are those who pretend not to have moral opinions. I simply don't believe that adult human beings functioning at usual levels can be amoral.

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