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99 Post author: So8res 15 October 2014 01:59AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 October 2014 09:42:18AM 1 point [-]

Of course there is. Behavior has consequences regardless of morals. It is quite common to have incentives to behave (or not) in certain ways without morality being involved.

What do you mean by “morality”? Were the incentives the Heartstone wearer was facing when deciding whether to kill the kitten about morality, or not?

Comment author: Lumifer 14 October 2014 05:40:56PM 1 point [-]

By morality I mean a particular part of somebody's system of values. Roughly speaking, morality is the socially relevant part of the value system (though that's not a hard definition, but rather a pointer to the area where you should search for it).