morality
By tkdcapz
@tkdcapz (42)
Philippines
July 23, 2012 9:15am CST
What really is morality? What if morality is weighed against survival?
For example:
*a poor father is forced to rob because he badly needed some money to pay for his child's appendicitis surgery.
*a person is forced to kill one person, who he loves the most, or kill himself.
Sometimes, what is immoral to our eyes is a tradition to other countries (bull fighting, throwing acid to face, etc.). What MORALITY truly means to you?
2 responses
@MusicSavy (22)
• Grenada
24 Jul 12
What an interesting topic..i never reeeeally thought of it before.
At least not independently as just 'morals' hanging in the air.
I've always seen it in conjunction with and from the perspective of God.
What if we were to weigh morality against God.Where the actions of doing right came out of a love response to Him in that we want to choose to do right because that's what He said "if you love me,keep my commandments" John 14:15 and his commandment is "love one another even as i have loved you" John 15:12
Morality;principles and standards distinguishing between right and wrong.In one way it can be likened unto laws.Christ said He didnt come to abolish the law ..but rather that He is the fulfillment of it.
And what if we were to live our lives according to God's standards, and live the way God intended it so that a poor father is not forced to rob because he,living out of relationship with God knows he can ask in faith and see his child made well...or we as humans uphold the 'it's more blessed to give than receive' principle so that money would not have been hard to come by...
Did you know that in Bible days in Deutoronomy God actually told Moses to tell the people that when they were harvesting their land they weren't supposed to clean it bare but leave back some so the poor among them could be free to take those...that wasn't stealing...
When Christ and His disciples passed through a city and they were hungry and broke ears of corn on the sabbath...the Pharisees (self righteous, moral people) ridiculed them because they had twisted what the sabbath really meant and was about...
About the examples of bull fighting and acid throwing...you know what...The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. Christ came that we may have life and have it to the fullest.God says all things are lawful..but not all things are lawful but not all things are expedient or edifying...additionally just because something's a tradition doesn't mean it's right. A country could have a tradition of burying deformed children at birth just because they're deformed ..but that doesn't mean it's right.
I think this is the measure of morality:anything that's labelled stealing,killing and destroying it's not of God who has come to promote life.If we're doing and basing morality on ourselves..it doesn't make sense.
@tkdcapz (42)
• Philippines
24 Jul 12
We don't really think about it because we only see the morality that surrounds us. Our morality is different to other poeple's morality, specially in other countries.
Their tradition is not right to us because that's what we have been taught. But those people who does this kind of traditions don't seem to think it's wrong, because they have different perspective of morality to ours.
I see your point, since I'm a christian: seeing the perspective of God in situations. But you also have to remember that all people don't see the same God that we do.
@MusicSavy (22)
• Grenada
24 Jul 12
You're right...
People don't see the same God we do...it's sad.
And it does not change the fact just because they don't see it sadly.
But there are some absolute truths...absolute wrongs and rights that dont depend on perspective...you can still have different perspectives..but it doesnt change it..
If Parts of the world have sacred ducks for example...other parts would have the same ducks..but for dinner...is that morally right or wrong according to perspectives especially when there's an absolute Truth despite others' paradighms?
@squallming (1775)
• Malaysia
24 Jul 12
For me, morality is deeply associated with the act of doing something which is considered to be rightful and well justified in the lense of the cultural environment in which we are physically at, and does not causes harm to others for one's own benefits. Based on my definition, it would seems that the first situation you mentioned is considered morally justified as he is doing so for the sake of his child. However, it is not lawful.
@rog0322 (2829)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
17 Aug 12
Hi,
In values and morals, the end does not always justify the means no matter how good or noble the goal may be if the way to achieve it is not in conformity with law and order, good conduct and general welfare, then it is not moral.
Even if morality is just a social convention, it still serve a special purpose: to keep order in an otherwise anarchic existence. However, if everyone in a particular society practices it, then it becomes moral, oftentimes to the detriment of that social organization.
Having multiple wives is moral in some social culture while it is not in other culture. A lie or untruth, if often repeatedly done and accepted shall become moral for that particular group of people, such as the belief that the world was flat or the killing a sacrificial virgin on the altar to appease the wrath of some powerful deity. Eventually, the common belief shall be put to light as the dawn of understanding lights up their ignorance.
In perspective, it is still morality for them, at least for the time being.
