Message from @Ehzek

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2018-07-01 05:25:44 UTC  

And increases your risk of harm

2018-07-01 05:25:46 UTC  

How is that anything to do with morals, though?

2018-07-01 05:26:52 UTC  

You're confusing risk with moral

2018-07-01 05:27:04 UTC  

Because my morals dont need god to work like those that are arbitrarily forcing their moral definition on me

2018-07-01 05:27:32 UTC  

Like what Ragnarok inferred, risk isn't morals

2018-07-01 05:27:42 UTC  

Turn it around, and use the Catholic Crusaders as an example, a misunderstood group of people that are often invoked here.

2018-07-01 05:27:57 UTC  

They had no reward. Some battles had a 90% casualty rate

2018-07-01 05:28:44 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/451601956755210241/462852029904060428/MoralCompass2.gif

2018-07-01 05:28:46 UTC  

To crusade you had to buy your own stuff. In modern terms, imagine some guy from France having to buy his own tank and get himself to the middle east to fight ISIS

2018-07-01 05:29:03 UTC  

By your logic, Ehzek, if someone committed mass murder, but through it became *successful*, does that mean they're in the right? That they're "morally" fine?

2018-07-01 05:29:06 UTC  

There was no salary

2018-07-01 05:29:14 UTC  

No benefits

2018-07-01 05:29:25 UTC  

Nothing but a realistic chance of death

2018-07-01 05:29:31 UTC  

Reference the graph

2018-07-01 05:29:40 UTC  

Were they wrong to do so?

2018-07-01 05:29:51 UTC  

It was good for society

2018-07-01 05:30:14 UTC  

It isnt good to force it but its a choice that can be made that is moral

2018-07-01 05:30:30 UTC  

How was it good?

2018-07-01 05:30:40 UTC  

Good for their society

2018-07-01 05:30:46 UTC  

It's essentially a complicated way of committing suicide

2018-07-01 05:31:26 UTC  

To further the good of the society by your own will

2018-07-01 05:31:27 UTC  

When Muslim aggression began, what we now call Turkey was under Byzantine Christian Orthodox rule

2018-07-01 05:31:47 UTC  

So was the Holy Land in fact

2018-07-01 05:32:18 UTC  

So would you say there was any benefit? To this day everything except a tiny sliver of the Holy Land is under Muslim rule

2018-07-01 05:32:36 UTC  

And the little piece that isn't, was liberated by the British

2018-07-01 05:33:36 UTC  

In that situation it was immoral because there was nothing gained

2018-07-01 05:33:46 UTC  

By anyone

2018-07-01 05:33:58 UTC  

Only bad done to themselves

2018-07-01 05:34:12 UTC  

So it was bad for them to fight the Muslims?

2018-07-01 05:34:45 UTC  

Yes it is generally bad to fight a fight you cant win to the death

2018-07-01 05:35:30 UTC  

I don't believe you have answered me yet, Ehzek. So I will repeat myself: by your logic, if someone committed mass murder and through it became successful, does that mean that they have done no moral negative and are in fact in the right?

2018-07-01 05:35:40 UTC  

So by your own definition, if you do not succeed in doing good, then you are doing bad.

2018-07-01 05:36:01 UTC  

Which would also make true, that if you do not succeed in doing bad, then you have not done bad

2018-07-01 05:36:02 UTC  

No mass murder would be wrong because there is no benefit

2018-07-01 05:36:13 UTC  

Wrong

2018-07-01 05:36:15 UTC  

It doesnt matter if they were never caught

2018-07-01 05:36:18 UTC  

There is benefit, that hypothetical person became successful through it.

2018-07-01 05:36:27 UTC  

You cannot ignore that detail.

2018-07-01 05:36:29 UTC  

It benefited China, it benefited Germany

2018-07-01 05:36:51 UTC  

But that hurt the others it is wrong

2018-07-01 05:37:03 UTC  

It was done out of want not necessity