Peoples moral compasses

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I like to think I am a person who can get along with someone with totally different opinions than mine.

But one thing that fucks me up is if their moral compass is pointing the opposite direction than mine is. For example, THIEVES I absolutely hate them. If I find out someone shoplifts even from walmart I can never look at them the same. To most ppl thievery is miniscule. But not me.

Also to most people if they knew someone banged hookers they would judge. But I dont really care about that. On paper it sounds worse. But I dont care.

If someone gossips about their friends or backstab someone, like snitch on a coworker by telling the boss the work didnt get done because of said person. I dont like them.

Is this normal to have such a strict moral compass on select issues? Perhaps I was raised too much with the local "honor code". I have started to notice that the most degenerate people often judge others for being actually less degenerate than they are. I dont want to be like these stupid people.

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  • Normalmember
    1 year ago

    In my opinion, morals are the number one thing that makes a society good or bad. Everyone around us is part of our society, so everyone's actions count. I have been to place where a lot of people have bad morals, I'm not going back, I choose not to deal with them.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      1 year ago

      Im starting to agree as I get older. Even the immoral things I desire and I wish I could get my hands on i still want it illegal. Kind of weird.

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      • LloydAsher
        1 year ago

        Completely understandable. I kinda want a kilo of cocaine... not because I'm a user. But because that's a pretty good paperweight. It's also cool because it's illegal.

        Of course I will never aquire/ attempt to aquire. So it doesnt matter what fantasies I have for useless knickknacks.

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    • Menacingduck
      1 year ago

      No, it doesn't.

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      • LloydAsher
        1 year ago

        Kinda does. Morals are an evolutionary advantage for us social humans. Would you rather live with a psychopath that has no value for human life or people who value human life?

        Like it or not the decision on not killing everyone you meet is a decision that's labeled as a moral. Being a basic decent human being is moral compared to animals.

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        • Menacingduck
          1 year ago

          No, it doesn't. It's the actions that make society "good" or "bad. You can have bad morals, yet still do "good" things, just not because they actually want to do those things. It's your actions, not morals. Not everyone makes decisions based off their morals. To answer your question, I would rather live with neither.

          Here we go with the "decent human being" thing.

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  • litelander8
    1 year ago

    Stealing from corporate places is completely acceptable. The cost for theft is included in every item you buy. Fuck em.

    Stealing from mom and pops is disgusting.

    Snitching is for cunts.

    I personally loathe liars and manipulators. My naive brain can’t even fathom why people do shit like that.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      1 year ago

      I can never trust a thief

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    • LloydAsher
      1 year ago

      Snitching is morally acceptable for me. Hell its expected. That's how you cutback on crime in your area, when the neighbors watch for sketch behavior.

      Stealing is bad in general, especially to your own family and friends. No, corporations while taking into account shrink into their bottom lines will move shop if they get stolen from too much. This isnt robin hood the run of the mill box chain store isn't doing anything nefarious. Its keeping a couple dozen people employed. It's also not that hard to steal so easy enough.

      For lying it's not labeled as "bad" for me. It's a tool of language to get an outcome. As in it's not inherently bad, it's the intent that skews lying into a dishonorable position.

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      • Grunewald
        1 year ago

        Once again, you make a fair deal of sense here. I would say that truth-telling is the ideal with some exceptions, though.

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        • LloydAsher
          1 year ago

          I'm just a regular guy with opinions.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        1 year ago

        Theres levels to snitching. The part I find problematic is for example a coworker that says hi and smiles to you daily but then when the boss comes and asks why something isnt done right he immediately throws you under the bus in a fucked up way. Instead of trying to play it off cool and say he didnt see it or whatever. Then come to you later and tell you the boss been asking me this you need to clean up your act or you'll get me in trouble.

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        • LloydAsher
          1 year ago

          That's just office politics/ bad "friend" behavior.

          Throwing you under the bus isnt snitching.

          Snitching is calling the cops for behavior that doesn't effect directly you.

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            1 year ago

            I see it as snitching. I always told ppl when i started working with them to tell me if they have a problem with anything I do and Ill fix it. Dont go behind my back and tell the boss and I'll never do it to them.

            Its just one of those things that annoys me.

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            • LloydAsher
              1 year ago

              Depends on what kind of shit you do to be honest. Late reports, vulgar language, harassment. Theres a lot of situations that do warrant going to your boss for.

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    • Grunewald
      1 year ago

      A thief is a liar, no? 🤔

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      • LloydAsher
        1 year ago

        No, a thief just steals a liar just conceals the truth with a false one.

        A thief may lie to keep them from going to prison but so will a murderer. Not all liars are murderers, not all thieves are liars.

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        • Grunewald
          1 year ago

          To take something that isn't yours and to pretend you haven't taken it is to deceive, essentially. That's my reasoning.

          To say 'this is mine' when you know that it is not, is lying.

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          • LloydAsher
            1 year ago

            Its lying but it doesnt intrinsically make a thief. It's just a thief lying.

            Lying is an action independent of whomever uses it.

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      • Menacingduck
        1 year ago

        No.

        Being a thief is not the equivalent to being a liar.

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  • LloydAsher
    1 year ago

    Whatever keeps you on the straight and narrow. Whether it be God or the goverment.

    The law against murder doesn't prevent all murder. But it sure does reduce it especially for those who have a asshat boss or are said boss.

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  • BleedingPain
    1 year ago

    Snitches in the workplace (for things other than harassment and wage theft) are going straight to hell. You kill joys.

    Trying to steal headphones or a toaster- jail time. Stealing extra bread and beans cause youre hungry-ok

    If someone wants to pay for sex, so be it. Its their money to spend

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    • LloydAsher
      1 year ago

      Prostitution should be regulated. Keeps the kids of the street and the properly managed (no pimps/stds) whores in the sheets.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        1 year ago

        Pimps are necessary for the business. They would just rename them.

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        • LloydAsher
          1 year ago

          No they are to keep the prostitutes in line with drugs or coercion

          Turning it into a job with a 401k would be an interesting way to solve human trafficking.

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          • BleedingPain
            1 year ago

            The only pimp Ill allow is Hank Hill

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            1 year ago

            They do that too sometimes but their jobs is to book their appointments and offer protection. Kind of like a manager.

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      • BleedingPain
        1 year ago

        Better regulations for who is prostituting themselves

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  • Menacingduck
    1 year ago

    Your "moral compass" doesn't matter and nobody needs to have the same morals as you. The world doesn't revolve around you. Deal with it.

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    • LloydAsher
      1 year ago

      It does revolve around group standard morals though. You are only immoral if you are acting outside of the groups morals.

      Its relative. Most peoples moral compasses are the same theres just a few differences that dont make wide impact.

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      • Menacingduck
        1 year ago

        I think not.

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    • Grunewald
      1 year ago

      Some things in life do work like that, but not sharing the same sense of morals at the very least makes it nigh impossible for people to trust each other as a community.

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      • Menacingduck
        1 year ago

        You don't have to share the same sense of morals.

        It's not like you're supposed to trust people anyways.

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  • HannibleSmith
    1 year ago

    no its not HOWEVER i agree with you to a point

    my morals are infinitely inconsistent every single decision is a cost benefit analysis

    most of the time i live like a Saint because in my mind the better the people around me do the better i do by extinction

    i also hate thefts and cheaters

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  • my_life_my_way
    1 year ago

    I judge people for being less degenerate than I am

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