Morality to most humans is relative. One culture’s Morality is different than another’s. What is right in one culture is often wrong in another culture and to an extent I would agree with them. I would agree with them because I believe that the universe is constructed out of discreet love relationships and if it ain’t love it ain’t moral. Morality for me is constructed from the big picture scoping done to the small picture and from the eternal down to the present. Morality to me is about general profitability How profitable is the decision? If a decision is profitable on a universal and eternal scale than it is moral. But that’s not the whole story because morality is about Maximizing profitability. So now we have to look at whether the decision maximized profitability on the universal and eternal scale. Does it? We are silly humans how can we know? Now I talked about the scoping nature of morality and I wish to point out that a moral decision will first be universal and eternal in nature and then it regional and long-term before local and present. This means when we are determining the morality of a decision we must first ask “Does this decision maximize profitability on and universal and eternal scale? If so..Does this decision maximize profitability on a regional and long-term scale? If so… Does this decision maximize profits to me here and now? Let’s take murder as an example. Suppose it was in your interest to murder someone in the here and now and you would profit greatly. But on an eternal scale you risk the fires of hell and eternal condemnation and on a long-term scale you may get caught and put in prison. On a societal scale you’ve increased fear in society, added to the murder rates, decreased the gene pool and eliminated future contributions of that individual to society…and individual society has invested in. Murder by this model would be wrong as it fails to scale properly from big to small. A society that is Just would seek to impose the costs that an individual imposed upon society back onto the individual. That is why the Hammurabi Code is still relevant today “An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, a life for a life” But even the Hammurabi code fails to impose the full costs of and individuals actions back onto the individual. With Murder, even if you killed the murderer the families are still traumatized the gene pool is still depleted, the murder rate was still increased, the investigation, courts, and police cost money, the lost opportunity cost of both the victim and the criminal are lost and much more. Actual justice would mean attempting to impose all the cost upon the criminal failure to do so would be injustice and we have a lot of injustice in our society today.
The Economic Structure of Morality
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