Dan Farmer Quotes

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

I think evil is very relative.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

Truth is not half way between right and wrong;