A couple of years ago I had a heated argument with a friend about morals. He argued that morals were stiffling creativity or even human progress. I agreed with the fact that some morals were typically overblown (and practically misused) by a certain type of people. In the heat of the discussion, were I acknowledged some of his points but where he refused to let my arguments sink in, I walked out and returned with a hammer. ‘Here’, I said. Kill me’.
My friend was astounded, shocked and muttered that he couldn’t just ‘kill me like this’. On the question why, he finally agreed that he wouldn’t be able to kill anyone until he was hurt himself. As I didn’t hurt him by just discussing things, killing me just for being right wouldn’t be ‘morally right’. So, I concluded, where did that moral he was talking about come from? He didn’t know.
If you know, let me know.