Can someone please poke holes in my philosophy

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Can someone please poke holes in my philosophy

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Morality and fear:

Can immorality be considered a form of fear?

Why is one afraid of committing immorality? It can be said its because he wants to appear virtuous, but wanting to appear virtuous is the fear of appearing unvirtuous. (note: this part is a bit shaky)

Why is one afraid to commit the immorality of murder? It is the fear if consequences. The consequence of prison or exile, the consequence of public retaliation, the consequence of appearing as wicked and heartless, the consequence of self loathing and the fear gods punishment.

Would one pull a trigger on another he finds loathsome, if all consequences were to be eliminated? As if he were to dispatch another fly, everything was to continue peacefully as it always did.

It therefore we do not commit immoralities, out of cowardice.

(I realized that my philosophy of kinda similar to Raskolnikov's philosophy. But I'm not planning on killing any old pawnbroker lady)
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freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm Morality and fear:

Can immorality be considered a form of fear?
Absolutely any thing can be considered a form of absolutely any thing.

You are absolutely free to consider any thing any way you want to.
freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm Why is one afraid of committing immorality?
Does one actually 'commit' immorality?

Or, does one just behave in ways that are immoral to them and/or to "others"?
freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm It can be said its because he wants to appear virtuous, but wanting to appear virtuous is the fear of appearing unvirtuous. (note: this part is a bit shaky)
But some people do not kill other people not because they want to 'appear' virtuous, but rather just because they do not want to kill people.
freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm Why is one afraid to commit the immorality of murder?
Fear of ridicule and/or of punishment.

Why are you afraid to commit murder?
freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm It is the fear if consequences. The consequence of prison or exile, the consequence of public retaliation, the consequence of appearing as wicked and heartless, the consequence of self loathing and the fear gods punishment.
Are these the reasons why you fear to commit murder?

Who do you want to murder? And why?
freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm Would one pull a trigger on another he finds loathsome, if all consequences were to be eliminated?
Why do you find some people 'loathsome'?
freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm As if he were to dispatch another fly, everything was to continue peacefully as it always did.

It therefore we do not commit immoralities, out of cowardice.
But as I said previously, some people just do not want to kill/hurt "another", not out of fear, but rather just out of love, kindness, and compassion.
freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm (I realized that my philosophy of kinda similar to Raskolnikov's philosophy. But I'm not planning on killing any old pawnbroker lady)
I am still not sure what 'your' "philosophy" actually is.
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It's a little unclear you didn't say why we commit immoralities you just said we don't commit them out of cowardliness but why do we commit them?.

I would say we commit immoralities because of justification which is tied into an ideology which is also tied into the morals we were taught as a child .
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freewinn wrote: March 31st, 2021, 6:46 pm Why is one afraid of committing immorality?

Because we are a social species, and we (i.e. our societies) require that we abide by certain rules, that we label "morality"? We are afraid, perhaps, because the social penalties for acting 'immorally' can be severe, and we prefer not to be so treated?
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