Moral Dualism

Oh of course it wouldn't be the proper way to show your dominance, you would have a whole country or at least a group of people with guns against you, but that doesn't make it wrong.

Can we change the subject back to Moral Dualism from Cannibalism? xD

Epic said:

~THE_BO$$~, posting pointless posts to get your post count up does not work. We aim for quality, not quantity...

Thank you.

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I want an example. <------ Do u consider this as HQ???

And by the way I can't help if you could not understand my point.

Xypher said:

Just to make sure I am understanding what it is correctly, God and the Devil, Yin and Yang, Good Karma and Bad Karma, and Life and Death would be considered Dualism? Maybe not life and death, but the others, correct?

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Thanks for advertising my name, but anyway.

Wherever there is good there will always be something bad at the end. Life and death could be considered Dualism in some beliefs, depending on your personality. If you find that birth being the start of life and death being the end of it, you could find it as Dualism. But if you find the death is only the beginning of life, it could not be considered Dualism.

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Epic said:

~THE_BO$$~, posting pointless posts to get your post count up does not work. We aim for quality, not quantity...

Thank you.

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I want an example. <------ Do u consider this as HQ???

And by the way I can't help if you could not understand my point.

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I do consider that HQ, as he was asking for an example to further discuss the subject. I think that your post was fine, your post had some of your own opinion on it, and wasn't very Low Quality, I just think Epic was looking more for a discussion on it rather than a statement if you get what I mean :3

Uh, just a question. Would someone be considered a dualist if they believe in a scale rather than a black and white clear cut picture?

For example, Kant would be a dualist, because he believes that you should always tell the truth and never lie (because it is right).

But would someone who thinks that lying is right in some situations (e.g. an axe murderer at your door asking if your friend is in) be considered a dualist?

Sorry if my post was hard to understand

Sir said:

Moral dualism is the belief of the benevolent and the malignant. Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism - in western religions, for instance, a conflict between good and evil. Moral dualism simply implies that there are two moral opposites at work, in other words, right and wrong.

What do you guys think on Dualism?

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I think it depends on how you look at something.
Dualism is more applicable when it refers to something as a single entity.

In the broader spectrum one could perceive things as new beginnings.
Death, for instance, can be seen as a new beginning. A start without the thing that has died. Birth could be seen as a beginning. Pain and/or trauma are the same.

There are many ways to look at the idea.
In terms of morality... I'm not sure how to explain it in terms of morality.

Maybe as a linear scale?
In a "something isn't bad, it's only less good," kind of way.

Both systems imply that there are not dualities/opposites, only varying degrees and forms.

Sir said:

Moral dualism is the belief of the benevolent and the malignant. Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism - in western religions, for instance, a conflict between good and evil. Moral dualism simply implies that there are two moral opposites at work, in other words, right and wrong.

What do you guys think on Dualism?

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I believe it's all poppycock. . Sure, there is good and there is evil but there is no fight, no duel, no conflict. They are simply two different things. And they are not objective but rather subjective (see subjective morality).