IDLEchild
Well-Known Member
I was just wondering wouldn't it be a great experiment to pick people at random from the streets put them in a controlled enviroment, through some method purge them of any and all fear of everything and set them loose.
I wonder how much of our morality is dictated by fear? Fear of consequences, fear of pain, physcial and emotional. If there was no cause of fear of any reprecutions from actions undertaken then how would our morality be effected by such knowledge? Would the very definition of what is moral and ethical in the new enviroment change to better suit the new, potentially more dangerous enviroment where your actions have no negative consequences?
What if only one man was allowed free will upon his fellow civilians where he suffered no harm at all but could inflict any amount of pain and torture on others? Is he, by definition, still a "man" or "Human" if he chooses to be the judge, jury, and the executioner or is he just victim to the taste of something
unparallel to any thing known before to mankind, or is he the true "man"?
Can we really blame him for his "evil" he induces upon others or is morality just a way of keeping one's primitive tendencies aside, a way to tell ourselves that we are civilized and that even if we wanted to we couldn't due to the consequences we will suffer - the wrath of society.
Is morality for the most part dictated by fear or are we really that humane and considerate of others existence and presence in society?
I wonder how much of our morality is dictated by fear? Fear of consequences, fear of pain, physcial and emotional. If there was no cause of fear of any reprecutions from actions undertaken then how would our morality be effected by such knowledge? Would the very definition of what is moral and ethical in the new enviroment change to better suit the new, potentially more dangerous enviroment where your actions have no negative consequences?
What if only one man was allowed free will upon his fellow civilians where he suffered no harm at all but could inflict any amount of pain and torture on others? Is he, by definition, still a "man" or "Human" if he chooses to be the judge, jury, and the executioner or is he just victim to the taste of something
unparallel to any thing known before to mankind, or is he the true "man"?
Can we really blame him for his "evil" he induces upon others or is morality just a way of keeping one's primitive tendencies aside, a way to tell ourselves that we are civilized and that even if we wanted to we couldn't due to the consequences we will suffer - the wrath of society.
Is morality for the most part dictated by fear or are we really that humane and considerate of others existence and presence in society?