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Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: Jaelbird Date: April 2, 2013, 1:59 am
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[quote author=Pourquoi link=topic=1304.msg12176#msg12176
date=1364880655]
I can say 'You're immoral!', but definitely not 'You're moral.',
because it's simply not correct.
[/quote]
^ 100% agree to this
#Post#: 12187--------------------------------------------------
Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: CoNteMpT Date: April 2, 2013, 6:20 am
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what if i told you you CAN actually say "you are moral" or "that
person is very moral"?
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU? and yes, its true, you can say that.
or we could just change the word to "badassness" to please
everyone without exceptions.
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Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: Pourquoi Date: April 2, 2013, 8:45 am
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I never saw anyone using 'moral' that way. Yourself not
included. Please provide some proof.
Maybe it's a rare usage, but even if it was actually correct,
it'd still be too rare to not confuse people.
#Post#: 12202--------------------------------------------------
Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: Shinokyofu Date: April 2, 2013, 11:31 am
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"if you are virtuous, you are moral." This is just some random
sentence that i found in the web. In my language, the words are
similar and, like you said, no one says "you're moral" or "am I
moral?". BUT it's not incorrect, and since the meanings are
equal(the only difference is the language itself) it should be
correct in english too. Like you say it's just probably too
rare, and well, perphaps it could be changed to something
better.
#Post#: 12208--------------------------------------------------
Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: CoNteMpT Date: April 2, 2013, 4:24 pm
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ive never seen anyone slay dragons. lets take them out too. lets
also take out magic.
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Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: Pourquoi Date: April 2, 2013, 6:03 pm
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[quote author=CoNteMpT link=topic=1304.msg12208#msg12208
date=1364937894]
ive never seen anyone slay dragons. lets take them out too. lets
also take out magic.
[/quote]
Let's imagine you wrote a work of speculative fiction not based
on reality. And thus there'd be such things like magic, dragons,
FTL travel, etc... Since it's not based on reality, it's fine.
However, if you wrote it in an existing language and you decided
to invent a new word (or a new meaning of an existing word) to
refer to something already present in reality, then you'd be
obviously criticised, as it derails from the original language.
Made-up and wrongly-used words have absolutely zero value in
works of fiction.
Apply this to the 'morality' word here.
#Post#: 12226--------------------------------------------------
Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: CoNteMpT Date: April 3, 2013, 4:42 pm
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lets give all items english names then. or just replace morality
with "nangjibble" and "Luck" with "unipaluma" because why not
#Post#: 12228--------------------------------------------------
Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: Pourquoi Date: April 4, 2013, 12:16 am
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You didn't notice one thing. Morality is a concept existing in
reality. The items in the game don't, so you can call them
whatever you want.
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Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: CoNteMpT Date: April 4, 2013, 5:00 am
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then when it exists in reality and is exactly that the game
tells you it is, why change it?
#Post#: 12240--------------------------------------------------
Re: Should we replace the word 'morality'?
By: Pourquoi Date: April 4, 2013, 8:07 am
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Unfortunately, it isn't.
Or are you confusing morality with ethics? Ethics are subjective
and vary from person to person, but morality is static; you
cannot change it.
Overall, your arguments are becoming weaker and weaker with each
post. But I sympathise with you: it's hard to find good
arguments for inherently wrong opinions.
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