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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (69788)	5/4/2018 8:38:37 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361984

I know I can always count on you to come up with the perfect example. Morality in the practical sense is experiential. So for anything to be morally good or morally bad the context of the experience must confirm the quality of moral good/bad. We've gotten kind of bogged down with terminology here, which is a distraction from the main topic. I'll tie this to an earlier post where I used the qualifier >>> "Intent to cause harm or intending to bring about well being (to self or other) lies at the heart of each item we could list under the Alpha umbrella."<<< So, if you are being patient with a slow learner or someone who smacks their lips annoyingly while eating their apple, we could label that patience as good behavior (morally good) on your part. If you are patiently waiting for an opportunity to do harm then not morally good. I suspect any item we tried to list would be subject to the same conditions. And I will tie it to the earlier post where the Bible was invoked. I believe the example of helping your sheep or ox out of a pit on the Sabbath is often used as an illustration of what I referred to as "be the living bible." That is, consider the context of your experience and 'do' the morally good thing, which may or may not match up with what the dogma prescribes (may or may not settle nicely into the list of do's and don'ts).