#morality — Public Fediverse posts

We humans should care way less about being right and more about being kind.

Being strong doesn't mean being rigid. It means owning your mistakes and knowing when to say "I am sorry".

#randomthoughts #humanity #morality #society

We humans should care way less about being right and more about being kind.

Being strong doesn't mean being rigid. It means owning your mistakes and knowing when to say "I am sorry".

#randomthoughts #humanity #morality #society

First Principles, Deduction, and Empirical Convergence
Can we find first principles for morality?
#morality
#philosophy
#science
https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/first-principles-deduction-and-empirical-convergence-b7b4eba2ab07

First Principles, Deduction, and Empirical Convergence
Can we find first principles for morality?
#morality
#philosophy
#science
https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/first-principles-deduction-and-empirical-convergence-b7b4eba2ab07

Biblical morality often sparks deep conversations about right and wrong. It challenges us to reflect on our values and the principles we live by. How do you interpret the teachings of the Bible in today's world? Let's explore the relevance of these ancient texts in our modern lives. #Faith #Morality #Bible #Ethics #Spirituality

Biblical morality often sparks deep conversations about right and wrong. It challenges us to reflect on our values and the principles we live by. How do you interpret the teachings of the Bible in today's world? Let's explore the relevance of these ancient texts in our modern lives. #Faith #Morality #Bible #Ethics #Spirituality

Richard Carrier may have created a powerful model for morality.

#morality

#mathematics

#philosophy

#gametheory

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When Deduction Meets Observation

An Unexpected Convergence in Moral Philosophy

https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/when-deduction-meets-observation-1e2b65da754b

Richard Carrier may have created a powerful model for morality.

#morality

#mathematics

#philosophy

#gametheory

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When Deduction Meets Observation

An Unexpected Convergence in Moral Philosophy

https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/when-deduction-meets-observation-1e2b65da754b

I had a "religion is not a substitute for a self-developed inner framework of morality and ethics" moment today.

I was at a pedestrian crossing, trying to cross the road in front of a big cathedral in Valle de Bravo earlier today, when Sunday mass was in session.

I saw nearly all drivers slow down as they passed the cathedral to peer at it and do the sign of the cross across their chest.

But the odd thing was, no one would come to a stop to let me cross the road!

I was amused that people would choose to slow down to participate in the performative dogma of religion, of crossing oneself, perhaps with the intention of being a "good" Christian, while actively rejecting the opportunity to value a fellow human and stop their car to allow me to cross the road.

I think this is what happens when you don't grapple with the questions "what kind of person do I want to be?" and "what does it mean to be good?" on your own and arrive at answers that make sense to you as opposed to accepting wholesale the terms and conditions laid out by religion.

I had to forcefully start walking into traffic for someone to stop and make way for me to cross the road 😅

#religion #morality #ethics #dogma

I had a "religion is not a substitute for a self-developed inner framework of morality and ethics" moment today.

I was at a pedestrian crossing, trying to cross the road in front of a big cathedral in Valle de Bravo earlier today, when Sunday mass was in session.

I saw nearly all drivers slow down as they passed the cathedral to peer at it and do the sign of the cross across their chest.

But the odd thing was, no one would come to a stop to let me cross the road!

I was amused that people would choose to slow down to participate in the performative dogma of religion, of crossing oneself, perhaps with the intention of being a "good" Christian, while actively rejecting the opportunity to value a fellow human and stop their car to allow me to cross the road.

I think this is what happens when you don't grapple with the questions "what kind of person do I want to be?" and "what does it mean to be good?" on your own and arrive at answers that make sense to you as opposed to accepting wholesale the terms and conditions laid out by religion.

I had to forcefully start walking into traffic for someone to stop and make way for me to cross the road 😅

#religion #morality #ethics #dogma

it makes me sad that i grew up all my life with the core knowledge that Nazis are bad.... and that seemed to be a universally held - and upheld - truth.

But then everyone got addicted to social media platforms and now it's fine if those companies pay Nazis to post rage bait. People will just keep scrolling anyway.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696

#socialmedia #facebook #meta #morality #laziness #memory #nazi #neonazi #corporateMedia #Fascism

it makes me sad that i grew up all my life with the core knowledge that Nazis are bad.... and that seemed to be a universally held - and upheld - truth.

But then everyone got addicted to social media platforms and now it's fine if those companies pay Nazis to post rage bait. People will just keep scrolling anyway.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696

#socialmedia #facebook #meta #morality #laziness #memory #nazi #neonazi #corporateMedia #Fascism

Every generation thinks morality is collapsing. Socrates said it. 2 Timothy said it. Your parents said it. The data consistently disagrees with all of them.

https://onlys.ky/more-moral-not-less/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen

#Secularism #Morality #Humanism #SocialScience #CriticalThinking

Every generation thinks morality is collapsing. Socrates said it. 2 Timothy said it. Your parents said it. The data consistently disagrees with all of them.

https://onlys.ky/more-moral-not-less/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen

#Secularism #Morality #Humanism #SocialScience #CriticalThinking

Absicht und Wirkung
👉️️ https://whisper7.substack.com/p/absicht-und-wirkung
#Philosophie #Erkenntnistheorie #Kausalität #Moral #Ethik #Denkanstoß

Intention and Effect
👉️️ https://whisper7.substack.com/p/intention-and-effect
#Philosophy #Epistemology #Causality #Morality #Ethics #CriticalThinking

Absicht und Wirkung
👉️️ https://whisper7.substack.com/p/absicht-und-wirkung
#Philosophie #Erkenntnistheorie #Kausalität #Moral #Ethik #Denkanstoß

Intention and Effect
👉️️ https://whisper7.substack.com/p/intention-and-effect
#Philosophy #Epistemology #Causality #Morality #Ethics #CriticalThinking

“from 1850 to the onset of the American Civil War in 1861, only twice were slaves captured in Boston and transported back to the South. On both occasions, Bostonians combatted the actions with mass protests.”

#religion #theology #morality #transcendentalism #American #history

“from 1850 to the onset of the American Civil War in 1861, only twice were slaves captured in Boston and transported back to the South. On both occasions, Bostonians combatted the actions with mass protests.”

#religion #theology #morality #transcendentalism #American #history

“Morality involves right acting, while religion requires love of God and regular prayer”

#religion #theology #morality #transcendentalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker

“Morality involves right acting, while religion requires love of God and regular prayer”

#religion #theology #morality #transcendentalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker

@Seb321 @ariaflame @majorlinux @aaron @Robotistry

Seb i removed you as a follower

i despise you

i consider you to be a monster worse than an #immoral or #amoral person

you are content to sit in your mind palace and smugly judge the world for being messy, and doing nothing else, and thinking this is " #moral"

you are nothing but a picture of rank #entitlement

stop believing anything you say has anything to do with #morality, it does not

and fix your rotten conceited soul

@Seb321 @ariaflame @majorlinux @aaron @Robotistry

Seb i removed you as a follower

i despise you

i consider you to be a monster worse than an #immoral or #amoral person

you are content to sit in your mind palace and smugly judge the world for being messy, and doing nothing else, and thinking this is " #moral"

you are nothing but a picture of rank #entitlement

stop believing anything you say has anything to do with #morality, it does not

and fix your rotten conceited soul

A quotation from Montaigne

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom; every one, having an inward veneration for the opinions and manners approved and received among his own people, cannot, without very great reluctance, depart from them, nor apply himself to them without applause.
 
[Les loix de la conscience, que nous disons naistre de nature, naissent de la coustume : chacun ayant en veneration interne les opinions & mœurs approuvees & receues autour de luy, ne s’en peut desprendre sans remors, ny s’y appliquer sans applaudissement.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 22 (1.22), “Of Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law [De la Coustume et de Ne Changer Aisément une Loy Receüe]” (1572) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #behavior #conscience #custom #manners #moralcode #morality #mores #naturallaw #nature #publicopinion #tradition

A quotation from Montaigne

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom; every one, having an inward veneration for the opinions and manners approved and received among his own people, cannot, without very great reluctance, depart from them, nor apply himself to them without applause.
 
[Les loix de la conscience, que nous disons naistre de nature, naissent de la coustume : chacun ayant en veneration interne les opinions & mœurs approuvees & receues autour de luy, ne s’en peut desprendre sans remors, ny s’y appliquer sans applaudissement.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 22 (1.22), “Of Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law [De la Coustume et de Ne Changer Aisément une Loy Receüe]” (1572) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #behavior #conscience #custom #manners #moralcode #morality #mores #naturallaw #nature #publicopinion #tradition

haha .. what, kiddy ?!

#humans don't always act as morally as they say they are, so "we" (whoever that is) prefer #computers which do not have a concept of #morality at all - but that they can do much faster

thats not a #thesis 😅

not even close

.

haha .. what, kiddy ?!

#humans don't always act as morally as they say they are, so "we" (whoever that is) prefer #computers which do not have a concept of #morality at all - but that they can do much faster

thats not a #thesis 😅

not even close

.

When is a nursing shortage not a nursing shortage? I talk about this on Substack.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-nursing-shortage-that-isnt-quite
#philosophy #substack #economics #healthcare #nursing #employment #hiring #management #labour #ethics #morality #safety #workplace #perspective

When is a nursing shortage not a nursing shortage? I talk about this on Substack.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-nursing-shortage-that-isnt-quite
#philosophy #substack #economics #healthcare #nursing #employment #hiring #management #labour #ethics #morality #safety #workplace #perspective

Applying Morality to AI Systems
#atheism
#chatbots
#morality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oWBRvPESqI

#Iran state bans #gambling for everyone in the name of "Islamic morality".

But now Reuters found a multi-billion-dollar sanctions-evasion network connected to #IRGC and state which relies on the same illegal gambling ecosystem that people are arrested, prosecuted and punished for it.

This is how authoritarian oligarchies work: one set of rules for the public and another set for those in power. #Morality is for controlling society; corruption is reserved for the elite.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/illicit-iranian-gambling-network-helped-pull-off-4-billion-sanctions-dodge-2026-07-31/

#Iran state bans #gambling for everyone in the name of "Islamic morality".

But now Reuters found a multi-billion-dollar sanctions-evasion network connected to #IRGC and state which relies on the same illegal gambling ecosystem that people are arrested, prosecuted and punished for it.

This is how authoritarian oligarchies work: one set of rules for the public and another set for those in power. #Morality is for controlling society; corruption is reserved for the elite.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/illicit-iranian-gambling-network-helped-pull-off-4-billion-sanctions-dodge-2026-07-31/

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Dear all, what a productive and insightful conversation!

#morality

#religion

#chatbots

#chatgpt

#artificialintelligence

#largelanguagemodels

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Can AI Help Us Understand Morality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg7zN8EQWNU

The Wall of Hindu Nationalism under Modi is breaking down. Today, the Cockroach Janata Party has proven it. Any nation that practices 'extremism' is bound to fade out of existence. The well-being of humans will always come first alongside justice and morality. #hindunationalism #morality #philosophy

The Wall of Hindu Nationalism under Modi is breaking down. Today, the Cockroach Janata Party has proven it. Any nation that practices 'extremism' is bound to fade out of existence. The well-being of humans will always come first alongside justice and morality. #hindunationalism #morality #philosophy

This time, the machines do not rebel, nor do they bring cataclysm upon humanity. Walking among us, Nam Shin III holds up a mirror and asks questions—important ones, at that.

Read here: https://medium.com/cinemania/are-you-human-2018-a-scientist-mothers-dilemma-between-her-offspring-and-her-creation-f74986af2d54?sharedUserId=ricemegatronexpert

#AreYouHuman #kdrama #Koreandrama #chaeboldrama #scifi #AI #artificialintelligence #android #robot #philosophy #humanity #morality #review #medium #cinemania

This time, the machines do not rebel, nor do they bring cataclysm upon humanity. Walking among us, Nam Shin III holds up a mirror and asks questions—important ones, at that.

Read here: https://medium.com/cinemania/are-you-human-2018-a-scientist-mothers-dilemma-between-her-offspring-and-her-creation-f74986af2d54?sharedUserId=ricemegatronexpert

#AreYouHuman #kdrama #Koreandrama #chaeboldrama #scifi #AI #artificialintelligence #android #robot #philosophy #humanity #morality #review #medium #cinemania

During my recent debate with Richard Carrier, I defended a position that I continue to hold: artificial intelligence is currently our best approximation of the Ideal Moral Agent.
#morality
#philosophy
#atheism
https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/artificial-intelligence-is-already-our-best-candidate-for-the-ideal-moral-agent-73aa82d54cde

During my recent debate with Richard Carrier, I defended a position that I continue to hold: artificial intelligence is currently our best approximation of the Ideal Moral Agent.
#morality
#philosophy
#atheism
https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/artificial-intelligence-is-already-our-best-candidate-for-the-ideal-moral-agent-73aa82d54cde

Artificial Intelligence Is Already Our Best Candidate for the Ideal Moral Agent
Why Richard Carrier Still Seems Stuck in the 1980s
#morality
#chatbots
#chatgpt
#artificialintelligence
https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/artificial-intelligence-is-already-our-best-candidate-for-the-ideal-moral-agent-73aa82d54cde

Looking back on my debate with Richard Carrier ( @richardcarrier.info ), organized by ⁨Objective Ethics⁩ , I see that we failed on basic definitions. One is what we meant by Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
#artificialintelligence
#chatbots
#morality

https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/the-hidden-definition-of-agi-in-my-debate-with-richard-carrier-c062873d4284

Looking back on my debate with Richard Carrier ( @richardcarrier.info ), organized by ⁨Objective Ethics⁩ , I see that we failed on basic definitions. One is what we meant by Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
#artificialintelligence
#chatbots
#morality

https://medium.com/scientists-free-from-religious/the-hidden-definition-of-agi-in-my-debate-with-richard-carrier-c062873d4284

“Because morality scales with awareness of consequence, every expansion of our understanding expands our sphere of moral responsibility.”

https://athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/morality

#morality #awareness #consequence #climateChange #biology #evolution

“Because morality scales with awareness of consequence, every expansion of our understanding expands our sphere of moral responsibility.”

https://athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/morality

#morality #awareness #consequence #climateChange #biology #evolution

Debating Richard Carrier: Would You Vote for an AI Moses
#morality
#artificialintelligence
#chatbots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvXnDeAJBjU

Debating Richard Carrier: Would You Vote for an AI Moses
#morality
#artificialintelligence
#chatbots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvXnDeAJBjU

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🧒❤️ A study of 537 children ages 3 to 10 found that kindness and cooperation come intuitively to the youngest #kids, especially those who had to decide quickly. Researchers observed that by ages 9 to 10, #children who had time to reflect became just as prosocial as those deciding on instinct.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-kindness-emerges-intuitively-young-children.html

#childdevelopment #psychology #behavior #morality #sciences #parenting #education #earlychildhood #nature #humans

We can all relax.

"The phenomenology of heroic action seems to be at odds with commonsense morality: while the latter tells us that heroic acts of self-sacrifice are morally optional, heroes reliably believe that such acts are morally required of them. Do heroes systematically exhibit false moral beliefs, or does our commonsense commitment to the possibility of supererogation need revising? This paper argues, contrary to both supererogationists and anti-supererogationists, that we need not decide: as what we are morally required to do depends on how virtuous we are, heroes are right to believe that heroic actions are morally required of them, while ordinary folk morality is right that, for ordinary folk, these very same actions are morally optional."

#philosophy
#morality
#exculpation

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-026-02569-z

Again and again throughout history, growing awareness of consequence has forced moral progress beyond the boundaries of established religious doctrine.

https://athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/morality

#Morality #Ethics #Evolution #Progress #Awareness #Biology #Religion