To: Lane3 who wrote (69978 ) 5/5/2018 6:18:49 AM From: one_less Read Replies (1) | Respond to You are correct. I see now how these dispositions don't stand alone as either moral or immoral. But that points back to my original assertion. Morality in the practical sense is experiential. It is confirmed in the experience of contributing to well being or in bringing harm. Being patient may be morally good as when you are patient with a slow person or an annoying person... but not in other situations.>>>"Which makes one wonder even more how morality can be universal..."<<< >>>" WRT being vs doing, the category thing, I wonder how much of that conflation comes from religion, which may consider thoughts and deeds both sinful. I recall that from my Catholic upbringing. Jimmy Carter was famous for committing adultery in his heart. One utility of religion is the building of character so it may teach that the character, not just the deed, is sinful. Of course, sinful and immoral are closely related but different paradigms, which confuses the issue."<<< >>>" If one is impatient with a toaster, tapping one's foot, how is that immoral? Even if one strikes the toaster in anger from that impatience, how is that immoral? Stupid, sure, but immoral? The toaster doesn't care." <<<
