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#6504 Questions About Morality
Posted by
Mizukage
on 22 May 2007 - 11:57 AM
in
Rants, Raves 'n Debates
In that, you are wrong, for I am now a part of this discussion.
to understand morals, you must understand humans, more importantly, the way humans percieve. it is now cliche for a person to look at another race, or culture, and say "now, thats just wrong, they should be like me!"
what the observer, in this instance, does not realize, is that the observed have existed for several years/centuries, without outside influence.
In 1995 clinton held an invasion, for humanitarian reasons of course, of the african nation of somalia. a hotbed of rebels, vagrance and violence. vice at its finest.
the americans were forced to tactically withdraw after a large sortie with an aboriginie warband resulted in 19 fatalities.
the americans, in thier infinite wisdom and military prowess entered into an area that they had faulty info about the people. the somalians were warriors, born and bred, logic did not apply to the horde of african fighters, running and gunning in the effort to be the one to hold the ranger's head above his shoulders, still dripping his lifeblood.
At the heart of this all is logic. it was logical to stop this sort of behavior from our point of view, but in the eyes of the somalians, bloodshed was a form of freedom.
a militaristic society, shunned by the "civilized" world. there are countless examples like this. it simply goes to show you that logic, and its subsiquent morality are seen through different lenses, in different lands.
to understand morals, you must understand humans, more importantly, the way humans percieve. it is now cliche for a person to look at another race, or culture, and say "now, thats just wrong, they should be like me!"
what the observer, in this instance, does not realize, is that the observed have existed for several years/centuries, without outside influence.
In 1995 clinton held an invasion, for humanitarian reasons of course, of the african nation of somalia. a hotbed of rebels, vagrance and violence. vice at its finest.
the americans were forced to tactically withdraw after a large sortie with an aboriginie warband resulted in 19 fatalities.
the americans, in thier infinite wisdom and military prowess entered into an area that they had faulty info about the people. the somalians were warriors, born and bred, logic did not apply to the horde of african fighters, running and gunning in the effort to be the one to hold the ranger's head above his shoulders, still dripping his lifeblood.
At the heart of this all is logic. it was logical to stop this sort of behavior from our point of view, but in the eyes of the somalians, bloodshed was a form of freedom.
a militaristic society, shunned by the "civilized" world. there are countless examples like this. it simply goes to show you that logic, and its subsiquent morality are seen through different lenses, in different lands.
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