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This is a big issue for me, and i dont have a clear opinion on it, but from what i can tell from experience it is best if morality is restricted passively to the personal sphere, the reason i think its best to limit it thus, is because from historical experiences it seems when you extend morality to the wider society, it tends to become corrupted and to fall into pits of stagnant orthodoxy.
Looking at the experiments with Confucianism and state systems in Imperial china, it seems clear to me that the fault of those Confucians was to be a bit naive, and to think that morality could curb corruption alone, which seems to me was clearly proven wrong, although it did show that aspects of Confucianism works well in larger inter-personal relations...
My own morality is a mix of Neo-Confucianism and European Humanism..
so, whats your take on this, where does Morality fit and why? also which kind of morality do you adhere to, or see as your own..?
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