Question: Its sound moral reasoning possible?
I believe that sound moral reasoning is not possible. Moral is only one opinions about the right and the wrong. If so, then how can ones moral be sound to another that have different moral beliefs. And if people have different moral beliefs, how can one reason with another about it. For example, a monk would think killing animals are wrong or anything that have a life of its own, but for those who don’t believe in Buddhism would see it differently. Would you say one have worse moral then the other, no because you cant compare two that have different beliefs. This means that sound moral reasoning is not possible because people have different moral standards.
Someone would argue that there are morals that is true for everyone and if everyone have the same moral standards, then sound moral reasoning is possible. For example, killing is wrong, everyone would agree with that. People got punished for it. Therefore we can reason that it’s wrong. But can we really? When solider go into war, don’t they kill. So does the general public accuse them of doing an unmoral thing? No. In fact, we cheer for them, we give them medals for it. If we award them for killing then how can we reason that killing is wrong? Therefore, we can’t say sound moral reasoning is possible when the moral of ones belief is always changing.
To conclude, I feel that sound moral reasoning is not possible because ones moral is simply what ones believe in. moreover, because ones beliefs changes overtime and people have different feeling toward what’s right and what’s wrong. Reasoning about something like that is just impossible.
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