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[dhil]

I have a question. It is not important, you need not answer.

It is just to create thought.

Do you suppose that morality is perhaps a subjective thing?

Or is it always a constant?


[ACTION]

[In the mean time, the nomadiest of nomads in Genessia is actually visible for a time! They'd slithered out of whatever comfortable crevice they've been holed away in for this long, and have again taken to wandering.

As usual, they can be found...

Anywhere.

In any city, in any building!

In your cupboard.

The shadow's curiosity is not a thing that should have ever been paired with the ability to alter their mass and density.

Sorry about all the heart attacks.]

Comments

[text]

[black_black_heart]

subjective af

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[dhil]

What leads you to this?

[black_black_heart]

lotsa reasons

an easy one: I own a bar, I watch everyone's moral compasses go into tailspins on a nightly basis

[Text]

[cadbane]

It's flexible, depending where you're standing at the time.

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[dhil]

Why do you think so?

I am curious.

[Text]

[cadbane]

Just a matter of perspective. Someone rebelling, for example, could be seen as a hero yet they could also be seen as a troublemaker. If they kill people in their quest, their side would see it as morally justified while the other would see as it as a crime.

Everything depends on how you see those acts at that time.

Then further down in history, what was once thought moral may become immoral as laws and ideas change. You have to be adaptable and so not remain constant or predictable.

[text]

[treesus]

I think it is largely subjective with a few constants. Though the fact that others would disagree with that would make it subjective, wouldn't it?

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[dhil]

What might you imagine those constants to be, if you do not mind my asking?

[treesus]

I'd say the most important are: To only harm others in protection of oneself or another and one should act to help others when it's reasonable to do so.

[TEXT][ACTION] Regarding Morality

[imukurofenrir]

Night had fallen from Mukuro's temporary home. It was rather luxurious by her standards, and yet she still felt off, like she was uninvited to her new place of living.

It didn't help she was STILL unarmed, and was taking a toll on her nerves to an almost insanity bound degree.

"Something's wrong I can feel it..." She whispered to herself before hearing the sound of vibrating plastic rattling atop her nightstand. She nearly punched her fist against the wood before stoping seeing a single text appear on the locked screen.

I have a question. It is not important, you need not answer.

It is just to create thought.

Do you suppose that morality is perhaps a subjective thing?

Or is it always a constant?

Just as her eyes finished processing the words, two things came to mind. One, whom or how did they get her specific number, or was it the one who had given her the phone in the first place. Second, the question itself seemed like an old Confucius riddle that had many possibles, but the answer was all in the one who asked.

This oddly seemed to calm her, as she picked up the phone and lay on her bed staring at the I.M. screen for what seemed like an eternity. It indeed got her mind rolling, and even kept her paranoia at bay for a few solaceble minutes. But, like anything, she knew she couldn't let it last, and an abnormal breeze seemed to make her fingers twitch onto the touchscreen keyboard like a magnet.

"You're not going to let me live this up... are you?" She sighed as she began to type back.

I will answer regardless if you need it. Morality is a subjective constant. What that means is once someone is fixated on a direction in the moral compass, it would take a life changing or physical change to alter their outlook. On a side note, why bother asking if I 'need not answer'? She replied, sending back the text and plopping the phone on her stomach.

Despite having replied to this "Ghost Texter", she had yet to feel any closure, like it had only intensified her anxious feelings from before.

[dhil]

It is for thinking.

To stimulate deeper thought.

Something to pass the time, of course. Why would you bother reading? Or eating candy? You do not need to.

Do you think there is any part of morality that is constant?

[imukurofenrir]

The vibration of the phone and upon reading the quip, made her laugh a little.

Fair point, but the only thing I have here is tap water and some milk and bread so you're a bit far from the point there.

Constant morality?... She typed, trailing off in thought as what little fractured memories she retained glossed over her eyes like a video on fast forward. She panted and shook her head and backtraced from the elipsies to continue her text

Constant morality? To know that would require me to see if you really are of the human kind. Because the way this world seems, I can't quite trust that your moral constant is the same as mine. She said, thumping against the enter key and lowering the phone above her breasts.

"Come on puppet man, lets just see how many strings your willing to pull." She taunted with a smirk.

[action]

[badly_behaved_priest]

That better not be what Sanzo thinks it is. It better not. That craven bit of garbage should know better, god-fucking-damnit. It was the middle of the night and he was in goddamn pjs. Now was not the time!

"Get out!" he shrieked at the cupboard door, going straight from his usual mildly annoyed to pissed the fuck off. Nope, not allowed. Out of his house! Now!

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[dhil]

Well you're not their dad.

The answer was the most vindictive and challenging biscuit bag rustle on the face of the planet.

FITE THEM.

FITE THEM IN THE PIT.

[badly_behaved_priest]

Who'd want to be your dad? Loser! Sanzo banged on the cupboard door with the butt of his gun- of course he had his gun with him, why wouldn't he in the middle of the night in his own home?- leaving a dent in the wood in his anger.

"OUT! He won't save your useless hide this time!" Amberdrake wasn't home and shouldn't be for a while! Ha! Get out!

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[unhappy]

If you're a kid lying down in an alley because you can barely move because you don't have money or any means to get food, you learn very quickly that "killing" is just a word so people can specify whether they accept guilt for an action or not. "If I didn't directly do it, I'm not responsible for your death even if I didn't help you when I saw you needed help because you look dirty." Theft is sometimes the only way to get what you need to survive because eating out of a garbage can is just as likely to kill you as the people who call you a filthy street rat even though you don't have another choice. But they don't care, because they didn't pull the trigger. It only matters if you pull the trigger to moral people because "moral" people tend to just figure they're right because they haven't experienced a situation where they're not yet.

Morality isn't just subjective, it's overrated as a concept.

[dhil]

Then you do not see a point for morals?

[unhappy]

I see their point. I just happen to think it's so that people can act like they're better than others even though it's a set of rules they made up in their head.

[Video]

[youfool]

Objective, certainly.

[Short, sweet, to the point, for once.

perma text

[dhil]

You believe that everyone possesses the same morals? Or that everyone should?

[text]

[scarlet_devil]

Generally, yes. It's indeed subjective.

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[dhil]

What makes you think this?

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[bloodheels]

Well back home if you died you... usually died and here natives seem to die everyday. Just not us.

So I guess it's kind of a combo of it is and isn't, maybe.

[captain_by_the_book]

Morality is absolute. It must never become negotiable. The things that must be done in the name of the greater good are subjective, but they remain evil deeds even if done for good.

[text]

[cursed_analysis]

Subjective; Morality is an ambiguous term that has several different meanings.