This week in ethics, we learned about how not to answer moral questions. This first way to not answer moral questions is personal preference. Just because one feels a certain way about something, does not mean it is morally correct or incorrect. Thinking something is wrong does not make it so. Statistics is also not away to answer moral questions. All statistics does is show what the majority of people think is right. Some may rely on their faith and God to answer these questions about morality. However, the scriptures left in the bible can be interpreted differently, so that the same quote could be used for opposing arguments. There is also no way to check God's status as the "moral authority" since there is no way to check on God, or his morality. So basically all we learned this week is what not to do, and we still have no clue what to do.
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Although this is not what we were supposed to do (because you didn’t do it on your values), I thought that you gave a good paragraph explaining what we in ethics over the course of the week. I liked how you talked about one of the key points (moral authority and how moral authority cannot be a god as you cannot check whether or not they are right
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