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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9177771" data-attributes="member: 2525">All morality? No of course not. For that scenario? Yes, absolutely. I think you'd fail a test of a portion of the "are you suffering from psychopathy" test if you'd say burning someone alive is morally equal to saving their life by briefly turning them back using a mental suggestion spell, yeah. That would be clearly a "difficulty telling the difference between right and wrong" issue. I didn't say or imply that. No I made a value judgement for that particular scenario then you decided to generalize the statement as a strawman.For which I am thankful because it answers the question "Are you just saying this for a cheap shot on the Internet" rather than actually unable to tell the difference between right and wrong.Theft is pretty well universally considered a lesser evil than murder. I am unaware of any religion, any philosophy, humanism, legal code, tradition, or otherwise which would rank theft as a worse evil than murder. This would, again, be one of those "fails the psychopathy" question, if you actually meant it. But I am assuming this is just for argument sake. Law over the major felony topics is a reflection of a societies moral conclusions about these kinds of matters, often based directly on a societies greatest philosophers. It's not a fate worse than murder. Again, there is no moral code across the world that I know of that ranks it as WORSE than murdering people. Again, one of those "unable to tell the difference between right and wrong" type questions. That one is a softball ethics question - it has an actual generalized answer. Like the theft vs murder one.</blockquote>

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