To: Protagoras
There is never an absence of right and wrong, only a absence knowing one from the other and even that isn't typical.
To answer my own question of you, it is not in your rational self interest to become a thief and a murderer as there are likely negative consequences to those actions. In fact the consequences so far outweigh the gains of said actions that it is not even close to being in your rational self interest. If you were to avoid the most obvious consequences your actions still would have added to a atmosphere of general lawlessness making you more likely to be the victim of the same crime.
123 posted on
08/29/2006 11:39:57 AM PDT by
Durus
("Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." JFK)
To: Durus
To answer my own question of you, it is not in your rational self interest to become a thief and a murderer as there are likely negative consequences to those actions. What you think is in a persons rational self interest is not the same as what he thinks.
Not to mention, "likely" consequences aren't so likely in many cases. And it plays right into what I said in an earlier post, if there is no morality, there are only actions and consequences. It sounds like you agree with that, but perhaps not. And the question remains, is an irrational person capable of doing right or wrong.
What about a quite rational Muslim extremist? What about a NAZI? What about a Bushido Japanese? All quite rational. And all quite evil.
137 posted on
08/29/2006 12:01:25 PM PDT by
Protagoras
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