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Is it ever morally justified to impose your will on someone for the sake of personal gratification?

Update:

Was kind of hoping for a more academic perspective to be frank.

Update 2:

If I was describing rape, I would have said rape.

The imposition of will is a FAR different thing from the revoking of another's, and your ignorance is showing through your short-sightedness.

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  • 7 years ago
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    It depends on it the other person is willing to submit to your will. If their is an agreement of submission, then yes between consenting adults

  • 7 years ago

    Well you say for personal gratification. Does that include fulfillment of a contract? Because yes indeed, we can impose our will on someone to follow the laws of society and to uphold a contract they've made with us - would you consider that "personal gratification"? And it's moral and proper that we do so.

    But it sounds like you are trying to frame your question into saying is it ok to bully others. And you're calling people who don't answer the way you would like stupid. So I'm not sure what your agenda is here, but it doesn't seem like such an innocent question.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Teachers impose their will on students sometimes because they obtain

    personal gratification from helping a student to attain a better grade.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    Not in my book it isn't. That's a double negative.

    To impose upon an innocent human being, cannot be justified by anyone other than the one who is innocent. Mankind has authority over all life on earth, except his/her own.

    Hope you understand what I mean.

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  • 7 years ago

    Anything with the words impose and personal gratification in the same sentence probably isn't morally justified. The way I see it is that it's only morally justified if you aren't directly harming somebody or intentionally indirectly harming somebody. Morals can be tricky, though. I'm sure there are scenarios that could prove me wrong, but imposing your will on somebody whether it was better for them or not is wrong to me, I think. It's best not to interfere with somebody else's will unless theirs does with another's. That's where morals get tricky. In that case I would try to choose which side was more morally justified. If they're not imposing anybody else's will then I'd leave them be.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Do you mean bullying? No, it's never right. Some people seem to need to 'control' others, force their will on them but that only means they are lacking something inside themselves. Most well adjusted people are too busy living their own lives to be bothered with controlling anyone else.

  • If the imposition of the will in order to "push assault" Me The answer is: Yes, but in regards to his life, does not

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    this why i lock myself in the house don't come out because people like you who know no better its wrong to impose your will on any one for any reason even for the safety of our country that's called the draft and its illegal to draft someone into what they don't care about personally i had enough and don't care if the bombs come nothing i can do any way lived in a war zone fighting for my life in my own country most of the time i want no involvement with anything or to be attached to any one i want out of it ! and privacy and everyone on my life cleared out of it your not helping your sucking me in i don't care about money power being part of society i just want away from it

  • 7 years ago

    personal gratification is a preference, not an objective outcome. If I eat an apple, I may like it, but it will also give me sustenance for a period of the day.

  • 7 years ago

    depends on whether or not moral justification is in the eye of the beholder, or outside of it

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