Are you morally free to ignore your own conscience?.
This paper is about whether or not you are free to .
Ignore your own conscience. I don't think we are free to .
ignore our own conscience because some people try to argue .
That morality is simply a human convenience, and because we .
live together in comparative .
Even though people view ethics as relative, there are .
very few who will come out openly and admit what the .
significance of that is. They still wish to be considered .
respectable. To be fair, we must go further. They are often.
decent people and being aware of what facing up to the full .
facts would mean they try to find ways around them. They .
are aware that other people know that morals are important .
(although they may not know why) and would not look .
favorable on a theory that rejected morals altogether. .
I have never met anyone who was not aware of the difference.
between right and wrong as a concept in its own right. It .
only makes it a convenient accident (some people who want .
to ignore their conscience would argue that it was an .
inconvenient accident, the consequences of which they are .
escaping). It give morality no authority.
People do live as though morality does not matter for .
quite some of the time, but there always comes a time when.
they are aware of feeling guilty, and knowing why they are .
feeling guilty, when they become aware that what they have .
been doing is wrong. The fact is that we cannot make a list .
of things, which are "absolutely" right which all men would .
agree with, does not negate this position. Moral decisions.
are complicate, as we all know. But all societies have .
looked on murder within their own society as wrong, unless .
there was some specific reason to justify it. All men are .
aware that the interests of others must be taken into .
account in their strata of society.
If I have argued correctly, it seems to draw out .
that you are not free to ignore you own conscience, because .
