Can there be degrees of a "Morality of Death"?

[Frobozz]

Can it sometimes simply be a matter of inconvenience? Is it hyperbolic to refer to a "Morality of Death"? In a society whose only infringement upon the business or property of a man like Hank Reardon is a yearly tax of one dollar, that man will not die.

Is calling it death a metaphor representing the notion that improper life is not truly life?

[bluecherry]

It isn't called the "morality of death" because any and every one action according to the morality of death will kill you or even kill anybody or anything else. It's called the morality of death because choices are looked at as being always either in favor of your life or in opposition to it. Morality of death as a whole is one term for a consistent, systematic favoring of things which oppose one's life. Death is just the ultimate end of the road if one follows the morality of death too much for any of their life supporting choices to make up for. A single choice can be made though which is in accordance with the morality of life or the morality of death. It is pretty typical that people actually are flip flopping around back and forth from making choices in accordance with one to the other and back again constantly. They live in a sort of tug of war between the two moralities with their quality of life impacted by how close they are getting to one end or the other.

[Leonid]

What you would call morality of a man who steals or robs one dollar a year, but otherwise he is honest and rational?

[Devil's Advocate]

"Can there be degrees of a 'Morality of Death'?"

Not if life is the standard.