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more or less moral?
This does not compute.

Try: have morals changed?
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:43, archived)
It's hard to quantify
but I would say I have a reading of 6.8 on the moral thermometer.
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:45, archived)
I think I get it.
maybe are people more motivated by morals than they were 100 years ago, in which case I would say less morally driven.
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:45, archived)
It all depends on where you get your morals from
you might get them from religion, in which case, I would venture that, particularly in the west, that less people base their morals on religion now than did then.

Or you could be a relativist, and have no basis for morals other than what you think is right or wrong.

I could go on. But I won't.
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:46, archived)
The interesting question is are we less virtuous than before?
I heart Aristotle.
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:54, archived)
She didn't ask about pedanticism.

(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:47, archived)
The question is intrisically flawed
I'm not being pedantic.
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:48, archived)
Wrong
more or fewer people could behave in a way according to an ethical framework, or purely from opportunistic self-interest, or irrationally.
(, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:54, archived)