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Old 2009-10-23, 09:36   Link #90
ChainLegacy
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Massachusetts
Age: 34
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Originally Posted by Nogitsune View Post
As I said, it's different if it's a vital interest against a vital interest. It might still be morally incorrect, but sometimes, you just don't have the luxury of taking that into account.
However, that was back then. In some cultures, it might be necessary to leave the weak and elderly to rot. However, the moment it's not about survival anymore, it becomes a different matter.
Also, murder is generally committed in cold-blood and without the need to preserve one's own life.
I believe morals do not exist. They are temporary, shifting belief systems fabricated by the individual through a variety of sources, notably culture. You cannot explain using logic how killing an animal is 'wrong.'
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