What are morals? What is morality? Who gets to define this mess?
So ... Hmmmm ... I am going to try to write this without using sources. This will be entertaining.
Morals are those things that one believes to be right or wrong. The fun thing is the variances between what is considered right or wrong. Another amusing aspect is the way some are applied making the person a hypocrite.
That being said morality would be the application of said morals.
So now I am going to pick on one "moral" all life is sacred.
There are pro-abortionist who think the death sentence should be abolished.
There are those who support the death sentence who are against abortion.
Then you have those that believe their life or their religions followers or their ethic background or some other ideal should be the only one and then proceed to kill, yet these very same people will be against abortion or the death sentence or both.
How can one profess that all life is sacred if they support killing?
And this is where I get the resounding "BUT .... " with their justifications as to why one is ok and the other is not. While I do not like the idea of a rapist roaming free, one cannot support killing said person if one wants to pull the all life is sacred line... In my opinion anyway.
But even more fun is the who gets to define what a moral is.
Religions cannot seem to agree on a set list of morals. Even those that share the same holy writings cannot pick a similar set or so it seems to me. Even those "morals" like killing are not universal. So who sets the moral standards when they seem to be like fashion styles? Maybe that is the answer. Maybe it is the collective that decides what is right and wrong. If that is true then all it would take is a drastic, yet unified decision to abolish just about any wrong.
It would mean that as a race we are ok with people starving, people going without shelter, people dieing of easily cured diseases ... The list goes on and on of things that would take a collective change to fix.
Interesting
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