Narcotics and Morality

[ara87]

Re: Narcotics and Morality

By what standard of values?
It depends whose morals you are referring to. To a Muslim getting drunk is evil but to a Christian it is not. It depends on the standard of value that is set. All human action is subject to moral scrutiny and I don't know how you concluded the opposite.

Actually in Christianity, while it is not a sin to drink, it is a sin to get drunk.

[Muhaha]

By what standard of values?



Wearing womens' panties and drinking alcohol are fundamentally different morally; one is concerned with sexuality, the other with the sense-perception mechanism. I don't know how you came to the conclusion that they address the same fundamental philosophical concepts.



You have to provide a standard of value, a philosophy. Something can only be 'good' or 'bad' in reference to a set of values; there is no such thing as morality in a vaccuum.



It depends whose morals you are referring to. To a Muslim getting drunk is evil but to a Christian it is not. It depends on the standard of value that is set. All human action is subject to moral scrutiny and I don't know how you concluded the opposite.

I agree with everything you said.

Here is what my original argument should have read: A state can't and shouldn't determine whether or not Intoxication is a moral act because it's verdict on the matter will be nothing more than an opinion. No one can determine what is moral in life because morality is determined, as you said, by a fixed standard and everybody's fixed standard is different and no more right than another's.

In a Sharia Law State, everything is predetermined by an opinion of a small and delusional group of people who think that they're values are universally moral and should apply to everyone.

[Anonymouse]

Re: Narcotics and Morality

by a fixed standard and everybody's fixed standard is different and no more right than another's.

But by that you just made an objective statement. LOLz.