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Ruby | Supernatural (mostloyalruby) wrote in compass_network,
@ 2013-05-12 18:01:00

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!open, steve rogers, ~greg house

What is morality, anyway? How do we decide what is right and what is wrong? Isn't everything relative, really?

You say you do the 'right thing', or that you try to, but how do you judge that? Life is a zero sum game, so everything you do, every step ahead you take hurts somebody. There are winners and losers in everything you do, so who is to say that helping one person is RIGHT if it hurts another?

I say we should all just cast aside the idea of right and wrong. They're stupid ideas.

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	captain_srogers 2013-05-13 12:49 am UTC (link)
	Not to us, but to people of that time it would have been. I'm not saying we're perfect as a species in this thinking but it's the way things are. Right and wrong are dependent of circumstance and the rules of the world you live in. But even so, by saying that you're negating your own argument, that would be a case of moral absolute. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mostloyalruby 2013-05-13 12:58 am UTC (link)
	Ah, but I'm not. And you're saying I'm not. I didn't say he was right or wrong - I'm saying that by your standards he's wrong, and by the standards of his time he was right. Therefore if the same action could be considered both right and wrong then there are no absolutes. Everything fluctuates on a whim of this thing you call "society." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	captain_srogers 2013-05-13 01:04 am UTC (link)
	I don't disagree there, it does fluctuate, but where we disagree is that I don't think that fluctuation means it's a useless idea. It's still a necessary part of the world. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mostloyalruby 2013-05-13 01:05 am UTC (link)
	Why? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	captain_srogers 2013-05-13 01:11 am UTC (link)
	Because without them the worst kinds in the world will take advantage and hurt those who try and be good people. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mostloyalruby 2013-05-13 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Again. "Worst" and "good" are relative. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	captain_srogers 2013-05-13 02:27 am UTC (link)
	But I think on the extreme sides of either it' pretty easy to know where someone stands. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mostloyalruby 2013-05-13 02:32 am UTC (link)
	Hmm, not necessarily. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	captain_srogers 2013-05-13 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Then we're bound to disagree (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mostloyalruby 2013-05-13 02:38 am UTC (link)
	Why does that not surprise me, Boy Scout. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	captain_srogers 2013-05-13 02:41 am UTC (link)
	Probably the same reason it doesn't surprise me. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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