Things That Are Morally Wrong

  • Murder
  • Animal abuse
  • Kidnapping
  • Theft
  • Torture
  • slavery
  • assault
  • scamming/fraud
  • rape
  • tresspassing
  • attempted murder
  • Child abuse
  • negligence

These items on the list is always wrong thereis never an instince where this is fine. These actions are universally wrong. The definition of universality is:

The quality of being true in or appropriate for all situations.

Another way to say this is that these are moral principles these are universal rules that guide people’s behavior. The name for ethical based on moral principles is deontology

Deontology is an ethical theory that uses rules to distinguish right from wrong. Deontology is often associated with philosopher Immanuel Kant. Kant believed that ethical actions follow universal moral laws, such as “Don’t lie. Don’t steal. Don’t cheat.

There are other theories of ethics which dont have moral principles such as consequentialism. Consequentialism is a result for example if a consequentialist had to pick beetween letting 2mil people to drown to death or 1mil people to kill they would pick killing 1mil but a deontologist would pick to let 2mil people die due to murder. Moral principles is a universal rule to guide peoples behavior like murder, tresspassing, and theft are not alowed.