Tales of the Talking Tiger

I liken this approach to applying for a job and assuming that you will get the job based on selection criteria you created yourself, rather than on the criteria set by the person offering the job. Creating the criteria doesn’t mean that you meet the criteria, and you don’t need any special qualifications to realise that kind of thinking is completely illogical.

What I also find interesting is the standard people create, and then judge themselves by. Perhaps you have said to yourself “I am a good person because I have never…” In this way you have created a moral standard, and then judged yourself against it. Not surprisingly, we are very good at creating a hurdle low enough that we can easily jump over it.

So following this logic, should we leave moral decisions to the individual? If I murder someone, but by my moral standard don’t consider it wrong, am I still a good person? Should I be punished (jailed) for this action if you think what I have done is wrong, but I don’t? This is only the start of the rabbit-hole when it comes to subjective morality…