Well, if you are a sociopath who manifests extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience, then it is not possible to answer your question.
Exactly: we need the OP's definition of "moral", "immoral", "good" and "bad" before understanding the meaning and intent of his post. In and of themselves, these terms are so relative as to be practically meaningless without an understand of his POV.
FWIW, I've been called "immoral" by lots of people who don't understand my ethical standards, though more generally I prefer the term "depraved", myself , yet no one has called me "bad" since I turned ten or so, except to call me a "bad boy", which wasn't a negative critique.
Exactly: we need the OP's definition of "moral", "immoral", "good" and "bad" before understanding the meaning and intent of his post. In and of themselves, these terms are so relative as to be practically meaningless without an understand of his POV.
FWIW, I've been called "immoral" by lots of people who don't understand my ethical standards, though more generally I prefer the term "depraved", myself , yet no one has called me "bad" since I turned ten or so, except to call me a "bad boy", which wasn't a negative critique.
Some would say that you are not being the best you can be. If you insist on being bad, why are you not the Worst???Why is it immoral to be a very bad man?
Then of course, there's the difference between immoral and illegal.
I've said many times that just because something's legal doesn't make it right any more than making something illegal makes it wrong. Then I quickly add that I've never been arrested
This reminds me of a Philosophy class I took called "Right & Wrong." I was always a big fan of relativism when calling topics like these into question, but maybe that was just the lazy way out. :smile:
There is a level of amorality that would be considered sociopathic.
Is this bad?
Not if you want that person to fight your wars or work on Wall Street.
I would think the best warriors would be paragons of virtue. But what do I know?
It is well known that most conscripted soldiers will not shoot to kill. It is easier to let someone else do the dirty business of taking life. I believe these studies date back to the US Civil War.
Any decent army profiles their hardcore troops to find those who will kill without a second thought or can be easily trained to. Chivalry it ain't.
And these studies indicated that sociopaths were the best soldiers?