What is Taboo for You?

i don't know if this is taboo or not, but i give respect to certain people. The different levels of respect i have towards someone could effect what i would talk to them about, or what i would keep taboo.

I don't think i am conditioned to do this because i choose who i want to respect and who i don't want to.

From USA

 

Well, I am so afraid of losing control that I freak out if I get in an elevator. I will not eat animals. I dont like large groups of people. -USA- Not sure if where I am from has anything to do with my behavior.

 

This isn't a large taboo for me but I can't steal, i never have been able to. I could steal quite easily if i needed something (as a matter of life or death type situation) but otherwise i just can't

 

America

kill an innocent person or stranger
I might be able to kill someone I know, because I know how fucked up they are and shit
but even if someone I loved was being killed if I didn't, I could not kill a stranger

 

Belive it or not taboo for me is popously insulting people...i cant do it...im from the uk as well...so you know...

 

Kill an other human being, except if I was defending myself or my children or man. (So, I guess I could, I think, but the person would have to be a huge threat to myself or my family.)

 

Excuses, I hate them and avoid them to the point where I don't defend myself.

 

punch a woman (unless she was a butch, muscly woman) is one thing i dont do

 

well for me i hold myself to some pretty basic standards...
no sleeping with relatives or animals..
i do not kill or do other harmul things like abusing the weak
or handicaped etc...
i think lieing is a huge taboo and with exception to the complimentary lies
i tell people instead of having awkward silences i hold that one pretty close
stealing is another no no as far basic things go
but no matter the taboo i think Ben Harper said it best and i am sure many before and still many to come think this same kind of thought ..."my choice is what i choose to do and if i'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you ...your choice is who you choose to be and if your causing no harm your alright with me.."


i found this site after seeing this thread http://www.philosophersmag.com/games/taboo.htm

i tried it myself....it was interesting

 

damn you are NOOO fun, no sex with animals? who else will lick the peanut butter off my nuts?

also I must add, that is one of the most interesting links I have ever seen on a forum, cool find

 

incest and murder.

peace,

pansy

 

hurt my children - i am terrified that they will grow up with some deep seeded issues because i yelled at them at bedtime or something - but seriously - hurting babies - it's just wrong wrong wrong!!!

 

hurting people period..killing animals (people are included in animals) or causing theyre suffering or death by my actions or innactions..
claiming to be from any country is taboo too so i'm from earth, currently on turtle island

 

I got 0.04
0.00
and 0.00

I think it should have included a few more questions on each of the subjects but it was really in depth

 

oh well yeah i guess i could have included my results...

Taboo - The Results
Results

Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.33.

Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.

Your Universalising Factor is: 0.25.

What do these results mean?

Are you thinking straight about morality?

There was no inconsistency in the way that you responded to the questions in this activity. You see very little wrong in the actions depicted in these scenarios. Where you have judged an act to be morally problematic, it is likely that you did so because you think that what makes it wrong comes from God or some other source of morality external to nature, society and human judgement. You indicated that an act can be wrong even if it is entirely private and no one, not even the person doing the act, is harmed by it. So, in fact, had you thought that the acts described here were entirely wrong, there would still be no inconsistency in your moral outlook.

the blahhh blahhh at the end might differ from person to person but yea there it is
oh and i also forgot i am from the usa but i am not sure why (skip) you would want people to include that ??? curious....

 

oh oh I know this

because depending on your society and the way you were raised your morals could be affected

 

to me, killing animals is fine as long as they arent harmed. no harm to animals/people, but no killing of innocent humans. this is because humans have a sense of what life is, and while i believe animals feel emotions and think and love and learn, they dont have a concept of their own life beyond the fact that they try to stay alive always