To: one_less who wrote (70624 ) 6/30/2003 2:46:53 PM From: Solon Read Replies (1) | Respond to "Conduct is always circumstantial and subject to the judgement of the actor. ""Since across generations, cultures, time, and circumstances, we continue to identify the same moral principles and associating the same tags of good/bad with them "that --that across time, culture, and circumstance, people and groups have identified DIFFERENT principles of right conduct. Indeed, the major religions which generally insist on being the carriers of the knowledge of absolute morality, often hold contrasting views on what is right behaviour. Thus it would seem to be a matter of opinion...THAT to be considered a decent thing for heaven's sake!) while most of us consider that eating other animals is justified by self interest. Of course, sacrificing infants was a common value in other cultures just as eating human flesh was considered an act of decency and often of honour. So the more we look across time and culture the more it becomes apparent that "right" behaviour has always been a matter of opinion. When all conscious conceptual beings cease to exist, we have no reason to believe that morality will not also cease to exist...or that it has ever existed apart from subjective consciousness.
