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Morality

Nooj

Nooj

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How do you decide whether something is right, wrong, good, bad, useful, unuseful and so forth? Where do you get your morality from?
 
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TJ73

Active Member
Morality in a non religious context is always subjective and comes from all the influences that make up the individual. IMHO. I know where I want to get mine, but still my experiences still color my morals. And I am always working on it.
 
bobhikes

bobhikes

Nondetermined
Premium Member
Nooj said:
Could you perhaps give an example? Sorry to be pendantic, I'm just not sure what you mean.
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All through your life people punish and reward you based on your actions. Our caretakers probably are the greatest influence on our morals based on how we judge their actions with us.

But even past them how you act in front of your peers and there responce influences your morals.

For most of us our goal is to fit in with society and those we like not to distance ourselves from them to do this we have to be acceptable to the ones we like this forces a moral code on us.

All my experiences, with parents, siblings, friends, aquaitances, coworkers created and modifies my moral code.
 
Rainbow Mage

Rainbow Mage

Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
Nooj said:
How do you decide whether something is right, wrong, good, bad, useful, unuseful and so forth? Where do you get your morality from?
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The negative confessions of the Egyptians, the Buddha's dharma, and the teachings of Jesus (Gnostic).
 
Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout

Misanthropic Humanist
I've never really thought about it. What's right and wrong has always been generally quite clear. If someone has to think about it, I doubt they're very moral.
 
ChristineES

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
Nooj said:
How do you decide whether something is right, wrong, good, bad, useful, not useful and so forth? Where do you get your morality from?
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My morality was learned originally by my parents- who taught me to share, to be grateful, etc. Then it was my peers- if you want to be liked, you have to be kind to others and that kind of thing. I have found it to be mostly true (usually) that people will treat you similarly to the way you treat them and that if you are pleasant, most people around you will likewise be pleasant and vice versa. I was talking to a young man once who was angry that someone snubbed him: I told him that maybe the person who snubbed him had something else on his mind- maybe something bad had happened. The young man said that he had never thought of that.
Morality, to me, is not harming other people and not harming yourself (The latter being controversial and many people disagree with me on that one, but it is impossible to hurt yourself and not hurt someone else at the same time). EDIT: If one believes in God, then hurting God is in the equation, too.
 
Eliot Wild

Eliot Wild

Irreverent Agnostic Jerk
"Morality is herd-instinct in the individual." At least that's what Frederick Nietzche said about it.
 
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