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Originally Posted by Sparrow
If you understand the consequences of your action, it is less likely you will harm others - because it will make you feel guilty and unhappy to do so (generally speaking).
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So the moral constraint arises from wanting to avoid feeling guilty.
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Also, if you throw the puppy in the full knowledge of what you're doing, I don't see how you could then object on moral grounds to someone throwing you about. It's a behaviour you are demonstrating is acceptable to you.
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And from doing unto others as I would have them do unto me, (except that I am not a puppy, so there would need to be another step in the argument to get from me throwing a puppy to someone justifying on that ground throwing me).
Is there not any sense in which puppy throwing is just plain wrong, regardless of whether anyone knows about it, (so I am not at risk of being thrown about), and I don't feel guilty or in some other way bad when I do it?