Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-93.42.16.80-20151001203157/@comment-2112031-20151007200006

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

Bluerock wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote: And BTW, I thought you said roughly two years prior that morality was relative, so why would you say it was immoral of Big Boss to do this? Moral relativity automatically means that morality in itself is meaningless, that there is no such thing as morality, so you really can't lay claim to morality. I did. Hence, I find Big Boss's actions in MG2 morally questionable. You, apparently, do not, or at least not to the same extent. That is an example of moral relativity right there. I will judge people according to my own sense of morals as I please, thank you very much, as you will by yours, and for you to suggest otherwise is incredibly arrogant. All I can tell you is you'd best be prepared to act like Heath Ledger's Joker character from The Dark Knight, since that's the logical endpoint of moral relativism, which is no different from nihilism. The logical endpoint of moral relativism is that everyone has to figure out for themselves what they consider right and wrong, this is often influenced by society and the people in their lives. There is no such as thing as objective morality, the closest thing to that would be to declare that actions which limit suffering are good and actions which increase suffering are bad.

Fortunately, we are a social species and possess empathy towards one another in order to function as a society.

Back on topic, Big Boss did many things that, simply put, were pretty bad. He allowed a man to be brainwashed in order to serve as his decoy, and eventually proceeded to recruit children from the battlefield in order to eventually send them back in to die. He had become deluded and believed he was doing the right thing and was saving them from being used by their governments, selectively ignoring the fact that he was using them for his own ends all the same.