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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: TimF who wrote (17386)6/26/2001 2:18:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Perhaps it would be useful if we had
different words for the two categories but even then people would argue about what fits
in each category.

At first I was going to say that this was a good point -- there's individual morality (should I smoke pot in my bedroom or not?) and interpersonal morality (is it okay for me to kill this person?). But then I realized that in a society, there really are very few, if any, decisions that are truly individual and don't affect society in general. My decision to use pot supports a vast criminal enterprise. Donne was right. None of us are islands; everything we do affects other people to some degree. So the category of purely individual morality is really a null class.
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