5 questions your Government can't answer.
1). There any means by which any number of individuals can delegate to someone else the moral right to do something which none of the individuals have the moral right to do themselves?
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Do those who wield political power (presidents, legislators, etc.) have the moral right to do things which other people do not have the moral right to do? If so, from whom and how did they acquire such a right?
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Is there any process (e.g., constitutions, elections, legislation) by which human beings can transform an immoral act into a moral act (without changing the act itself)?
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When law-makers and law-enforcers use coercion and force in the name of law and government, do they bear the same responsibility for their actions that anyone else would who did the same thing on his own?
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When there is a conflict between an individual's own moral conscience, and the commands of a political authority, is the individual morally obligated to do what he personally views as wrong in order to "obey the law"?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Good point.
Much of American moral interpertation is based on the Bible. Yet we know many of the interpretations in the Bible are wrong.
You can not be top leader of a big Nation unless you are Christian or a Muslim in Muslim countries.
If the state replace ethics rather than morals there would be no mistaken the business of ethics such as stealing and killing. Authorities break the biblical moral and ethics greater than any group of people in the world. Even the conditions for war in the Bible would make it impossible for war.
Authorities kill more people in the world than the public has done in human history.
The system is rigged by lawyers and the wealthy. The debtor slave system has evolved since 5000 years ago from Egypt. Slavery is bigger now than any other time in human history.
First people must understand how the history of debtor slave puzzles works before they can begin to change it for people power.
Castlepaloma
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Dec 6, 2017
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There is one problem with your post which likely makes people hesitant to engage with you. You use the terms 'moral' and 'immoral' without providing a definition of what constitutes morality or immorality. Without understanding what you mean by the terms, there is no way to answer the question. Society is generally predicated on a shared understanding of the values. Different societies have different values. A gesture accepted in one society may be offensive in another. The way the questions are phrased makes them impossible to answer, IMHO.
whoHearer
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Dec 6, 2017
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Thanks for the challenge. Most people won't even try, they will not even try til the abuse gets too painful.
In a interview, Bernie Sanders was asked these questions and could not answer them. He thought was being attracted by a scheme to harm his organization.
Imagine how much our everyday lives are run by these kinds of leaders that can not answer these questions and none of these leaders can. Blind leading the blind, now back to the 99 percentage unknowns.
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