Discussion thread. Are morals more harmful than they are helpful? Morals are thought to be the very thing that make humanity last and stay true and nice. An idea or guidelines we all set for ourself and humanity so that we can all coexist peacefully. Though do they work? Even more so, are they the exact opposite. Argument for morals being bad for humanity. Morals set the bar with how we act and lay the foundations of what we believe should and should not happen. This creates a paradox which ultimately leads to us judging things as good or evil. Eventually the good and the evil clash and bring about fights and even violence. Wars have been fought, massacres in genocide have all occurred because of a difference in a moral code. Even now people are fighting each other over morals. From the conversations of the rebel flag and gay marriage, to the wars over religions and government (Communism vs Democracy) Morals, where they create ideas of Good and Bad influence such a swaying opinion that it breeds hate. And hate breeds war. Morals are good. Some say morals help create and define laws which better institutes a better world. It allows itself to subjugate and condition humanity into a less primal and a more peaceful world. Thinks like murder, harassment, forcing intimate situation, child labor, assault, would all be more common of common and developed morals did not take place and influence laws to prevent said actions. So one side said it crates rifts which breads hate which breeds violence. And the other side said it develops laws which go to prevent violence. What do you think?
Well I guess it's all about how you look at it, you can give reasons to both sides of the argument but in my opinion it's neither good or bad.
I believe there are some morals that most of our society can agree on. Like not murdering people. But when you start getting down to small communities, you dont really know what they may find acceptable compared to another small community. Its hard to say.
We live in the most immoral time in history. May as well throw morals to the wind anyway, being as having morality makes you evil, unlike the serial killer who is devoid of empathy, who can get a gender change, curtesy of the state. I swear, Hillary will be the last straw. If she gets elected, I am going to find a rope, slit my wrists, shank myself, swallow bleach, hang myself, and shoot myself while choking to death. Then continue playing KaW afterwards.
Um... everybody has their own sense of ethics and morals, so trying to figure out if morals are good or bad is a gray area, with arguments for both sides and 0 facts because it is all 100% opinion.
Gender reassignment surgery is paid for by the government? Also, no. Not the most immoral time in history. Slavery was pretty immoral, and while it still exists, it's not as dominant as it used to be. Equality is making great strides. A lot of places no longer condemn someone based on who they find attractive. Poor Alan Turing... *Also, you could move somewhere more conservative I suppose... Less internet connection though.
If morals are bad, then it'd be better to live without a sense of morality, without a sense of right, and wrong? I don't think so. Morals are certainly problematic, and disagreements over them have caused a lot of hate/death. But that's more over the specific morals, and what is "right" to each society, than morality itself.
Morals and religion don't go together. Morals are societally based, society sculpted them, they're not rules on right and wrong and change depending on location, and circumstance. Example.. It's immoral to kill a man It's moral to kill a man who is "intimately attacking" you. Is it still murder if it's defending yourself? Or morally are you just doling out justice?
Interesting topic, morals and morality are both a personal and societal construct. We can't get rid of morals as they form a part of the very nature of our humanity. Perhaps a better question would be when your morals conflict with the morals of another what do you do ? Do the personal morals of the one or the few override the constructed morality of the many around them ?
Without morality society would collaps. I like the society. Morals being bad is a point based on morality.. I'm not sure how that works. And to whom said we live immoral nowadays, or the slavery era was. People have always had morals, they chance over time. Slavery was morally correct. even then, back when it was a correct thing, 500 thousand africans have been shipped as slaves in 350 years. Nowadays (slavery is seen as a bad thing by most people if you did not know) there are roughly 27 million slaves, this day.
Morality is a construct of values designed to establish rules of conduct for a group, not to be confused with rights. Rights are the basic rules about what conduct is allowed of people or owed to people, based on the values of that group. An individual's personal morals do not override rights established by the group.