Should morality guide policy making?
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NO WAY.  Morality is used to push things on us like gun control, environmental policies, animal rights, etc.  SCREW THAT, I'm tired of these fascist "liberal" weenies forcing their views down our throats.\n\nLove jack\n\nPS HAHAHA, stem cell could have saved "billions of people" - what a laugh.  Are you sayhing that all 6 billion people on earth will now DIE because of Bush?\n\nStem cell research is still continuing.  The government just doesn't want to fund research that uses human embryos or fetuses.
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Moral values guide your decisions about the most important decisions in life.  Life and Death, War and Peace, Wrath or Compassion.  \n\nIf you generally support war, punishment, agression, violence and killing of those you hate, then you are immoral.  If you lack compassion and your actions promote a lack of compassion then you may be considered immoral.\n\nMorality is also about personal choices you make which affect others, such as lying, cheating, or bearing false witness.\n\nMorality in my view is not about consentual sexuality, dress, language or decisions about drugs or alcohol.  Those are issues of preference and control (self control and control over others.)
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Too great a volume of decisions to be made.\n\nThe fact is that most people don't even put in the effort to choose their leaders wisely, so how could they be counted upon to make wise policy decisions, which would require even more effort?
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Ethics has to do with obeying the rules. Morality has to do with reasoning and behaving according to values that go beyond narrow self-interest. A change of incentives combined with regulation can improve long-term results and corporate ethics. But it won’t create moral organizations.
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Be a shining example of morality.  Don't drink and drive, have (unprotected sex) or drugs.
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oral is moral, if you don't someone else will
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i think that most of us humans forgot the word MORAL means because of the way we act at times\n\nif there is anybody out there that does not agree please ontact me we will discuss it
1057387
misising a few words I think ... anyway moral is flexible and relative. if yet you ind yourself in question I guess you have to live with it ...
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I concur.  I feel like adherence to a prescribed moral principle removes personal responsibility.  I've felt that way (only perhaps less eloquent!) since I was eight.  If you are a good person because you adhere to the Bible / church values unquestioningly, you aren't actually a good person.  You are only truly good if you are the person choosing your own behavior.  I think fundamentally it boils down to manners - in greater or lesser dimensions.
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An infuriating paradox, isn't it? Immorality has secured many parts of the world, but not all. \nContrary to popular belief, morality is making a comeback. We have the technology age to thank for this. The Information Age has turned the tables on people who formerly relied on people not finding out. If you've kept track of politicians across the nation, more and more are being uncovered for this or that political infraction. Crooked politicians are finding it harder and harder to survive. More and more states and municipalities are adopting laws and policies outlining a code of conduct.\nI truly believe that were it not for the moral man, these shifts in ethics and accountability would not have begun. \nDon't get caught up in the drama of movie making. Remember, the producers will do anything to grasp your attention. Flowery quotes can only seem to live in fictional backdrops these days. As long as each of us does their part in preserving morality, I think moral man will survive.
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answer as a moral question
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Death penalty laws are social engineering. I cannot subscribe to the ethics of social engineering. As a nurse who has worked in the system with pedophiles, I know also that episodic imprisonment is ineffective. They are relentless. I support the only known ethical solution which is chemical castration.  But, then again, I believe in that for Conservatives, too.
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Politics and Morality are both relative terms.\nUnfortunately for us, they both happen to be totally unrelated to each other !
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I would like to agree with that statement, but I don't believe it's entirely correct.  People develop morality in part because of social conditioning, but also partly from instinct; the invisible man would have no need for morality, but he most likely would still have some.  People do have a tendency to make mental connections that truly baffle- assigning personalities to our cars, talking to plants, believing that some supernatural being is always watching (whether its God or Santa is up to you).  The fact of the matter is, that left to their own devices, most people are intrinsically good and honest for whatever reason.  (I think it's delusion, others call it nobility.)\n\nThis was demonstrated in the book "Blink" by Malcom Gladwell.  He describes a bagel supplier that operated on the "honor system".  Just a box was left for money, while bagels were self service- dropped off in dozens of offices all over town, fresh each morning.  Even the most dishonest office lunchrooms where the brave entrepeneur did business still paid for more than 75% of their bagels- while most of his client offices had rates closer to 95%.
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Ofcourse, we could look it up in Websters, but who has the time.\nMoral to me is the foundation of doing the right thing.\nBoy is that hard.\nDamn you "Moral" !!!
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Morality is usually concerned with personal issue whereas ethics is concerned when issue takes into account another person.
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It is said and I quote..."A lasting social government without a morality predicated upon spiritual realities can no more be maintained than the solar system without gravity."  \n\nA functional governement needs a moral basis for society to thrive... and thereby the government will thrive...