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Subject: Freedom and enforcement of morlals
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vampboy 5.06.18 - 12:18pm
I will use an example of two philosophers to get this discussion started. On one hand, you have Mill who is a utilitarian who developed the harm principle stating that no individual action should be subject to restrain as long as it doesn't harm anyone else, and it is the state's function to promote individual rights and only enforce obligations in such a pursuit which would lead towards contributing the common good. Lord Delvin on the other believes in the notion that society shares morality and it is a very important element. * +

vampboy 5.06.18 - 12:20pm
According to Delvin, every society has different sense of morality and it just so happens that in the west much of the morality is derived from Christianity. He believes that this is the case even if Christianity is no longer prevalent * +

ogdenz 5.06.18 - 12:21pm
How can you be certain some individual action won't harm someone further down the line or that some immediately harmful action won't be beneficial at a later point? * +

vampboy 5.06.18 - 12:23pm
According to him if this shared morality is weakened, it would lead to the destruction of society inevitably and as no society wants to see its own destruction, it would avoid enforcing morals that would cause its own destruction, such as treason is punishable as it threatens society's existence irrespective of the moral opinion held by the indivudual. Delvin in a nutshell believes society is entitled to punish any act which if the shared morality dictates it to be ''grossly immoral'' * +

tranie 5.06.18 - 12:27pm
Would mass immigration by a load of people that are fundamentally opposed to western ethnics be classed as self destruction of society? * +

vampboy 5.06.18 - 12:29pm
There isn't any certainity, but should that stop legislatures from allowing complete freedom to individuals free from restraint which may also be a sure fire way to tell in the future if the action is inevitably harmful or not? * +

bozzalad 5.06.18 - 12:29pm

Wilful * +

vampboy 5.06.18 - 12:45pm
Do things we consider and/or know as harmful always lead to bad outcomes in the future? or does it often bring an irreversible change and a new way of thinking? * +

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