Schlagwort: Moral

Betthik.

Was sich nicht im Bett tun lässt sollte überhaupt nicht getan werden.

Scheiß(L)egal.

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determing [our] futures.

Edward Snowden on reddit

Common Knowledge != Common Practice.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russel - Marriage and Morals

Brutationalization.

An abuser almost never does anything that he himself considers morally unacceptable. [...] In short, an abuser’s core problem is that he has a distorted sense of right and wrong.

Lundy Bancroft: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men.

Doing good on paper.

Our findings on attitude-behavior consistency were mixed: ethicists showed the strongest relationship between behavior and expressed moral attitude regarding voting but the weakest regarding charitable donation.

Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust: The moral behavior of ethics professors: Relationships among self-reported behavior, expressed normative attitude, and directly observed behavior. In: Philosophical Psychology, Volume 27, Issue 3 (2014)