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honeylore23 @honeylore23 (1081) • United States 11 Feb 08

What is your perception on societal norms? How do you deal with societal norms? Do you think they should always be followed? Do you feel bad whenever you deviate to the norms of society? How would you react to people who deviate...

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sicelid About ethics and morals i replied below... Just want to say still something about norms... please remember the humour, i'm not taking this too seriously either :) Silvatungfox, "norms" are not just the normal, the average, or the median, but they are also...

19 Feb 08

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honeylore23 @honeylore23 (1081) • United States 11 Feb 08

What is your perception on societal norms? How do you deal with societal norms? Do you think they should always be followed? Do you feel bad whenever you deviate to the norms of society? How would you react to people who deviate...

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sicelid Silvatungfox, i haven't heard before the distinction that "morals are the personal, and ethics the social", can't understand what is your precise meaning, and don't believe that the distinction is accurate. Defining of concepts might be fruitless, but i...

19 Feb 08

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honeylore23 @honeylore23 (1081) • United States 11 Feb 08

What is your perception on societal norms? How do you deal with societal norms? Do you think they should always be followed? Do you feel bad whenever you deviate to the norms of society? How would you react to people who deviate...

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sicelid Hello Honeylore23 and thanks! Though, it is a little difficult to relate to your comment, because i might be wrong and that's why i claim to be just telling my views. Thank you for opening this interesting discussion.

19 Feb 08

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honeylore23 @honeylore23 (1081) • United States 11 Feb 08

What is your perception on societal norms? How do you deal with societal norms? Do you think they should always be followed? Do you feel bad whenever you deviate to the norms of society? How would you react to people who deviate...

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sicelid On what grounds do you define the words "morals" and "ethics" the way you do? There's already existing a settled usage of the words and if you are using the words not according to the common usage, you have to explain your usage (otherwise you will be...

18 Feb 08

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honeylore23 @honeylore23 (1081) • United States 11 Feb 08

What is your perception on societal norms? How do you deal with societal norms? Do you think they should always be followed? Do you feel bad whenever you deviate to the norms of society? How would you react to people who deviate...

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sicelid No, i'm not confusing ethics and morals. On the contrary i'd say your view about morals and ethics is quite original. Morals is a doctrine about right and wrong action, ethics a doctrine about good and bad, eg. the values to strive for in life. The difference...

18 Feb 08

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honeylore23 @honeylore23 (1081) • United States 11 Feb 08

What is your perception on societal norms? How do you deal with societal norms? Do you think they should always be followed? Do you feel bad whenever you deviate to the norms of society? How would you react to people who deviate...

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sicelid It seems like your definition of "manners" comes close to some kind of "sensitivity of other people's feelings", and this is quite far from the normal usage of the word, see for example: en.wikipedia.org/Manners Your definition has problems because normally...

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