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What is Morality?
What is morality?
As far as I understand it, it's something which has evolved with society so that pack animals, like us, can get along with each other.
If you're religious, it's fairly easy, just do what some dude tells you God wants you to do. Secular ethics are rather harder to codify. I used to think that not doing anything to harm anyone was enough, but in a crowded room, you can't step out of the way without standing on someone's toes.
There's always the idea that ethical behaviour means behaving in a way your neighbours find acceptable (Do unto others...), but there's always hypocrisy in those sort of systems. Umm... your turn.
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"No one was behaving from very Buddhist motives. Then, thought Pigsy, he was hardly a Buddha, nor was he a monkey. Presently, he was a pig spirit changed into a little girl pretending to be a little boy to be offered to a water monster. It was all very simple to a pig spirit."
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