What is the source of your morality?

[FlyingTeaPot]

I would like to know a few things from you:
1. Is morality objective?
2. Does morality come from a single source?
3. For theists: Are there any morals defined in your religious text you disagree with? If so, why?
4. What is your explanation for your morality?

 

[George-ananda]

I voted 'Other (please elaborate)'.

My elaboration is that my morality comes from my spiritual understanding that 'All is One' and we are in the process of advancing to that understanding. Hence brotherly love for all is my morality. Jesus' Golden Rule is a pretty good presentation of this.

 

[Terese]

1 - I find Dharma to be an objectively good morality for all.
2 - It can come from many different sources like the ones you have provided in your poll.
3 - I disagree with any "moral" female bashing that may contain in the myriad of scriptures we Hindus have.
4 - It is the best Truth. To me.

 

[Skwim]

I would like to know a few things from you:

1. Is morality objective? In part, yes, in part, no.

2. Does morality come from a single source? For most people, no.

3. For theists: Are there any morals defined in your religious text you disagree with? If so, why?

4. What is your explanation for your morality? A keen perception of right and wrong with a bit of empathy thrown in.

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[Ingledsva]

What is the source of your morality?

Empathy.

1. Morality is the belief that some behaviour is right and acceptable and that other behaviour is wrong.

Synonyms: virtue, justice, principles, morals

2. A morality is a system of principles and values concerning people's behaviour, which is generally accepted by a society or by a particular group of people. Collin's English Dictionary

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position.[1] There are many definitions for empathy that encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.[2] Wiki

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[Augustus]

1. Is morality objective?
2. Does morality come from a single source?
3. For theists: Are there any morals defined in your religious text you disagree with? If so, why?
4. What is your explanation for your morality?

1. While you can make a reasonable case that a small number of things are 'objectively' wrong, in general it is pluralistic
2. No, it reflects cognition, personality, experiences and cultural environment.
4. Primarily my formative social environment. Had I been born in Sparta in 500BC then I'd be completely different.

 

[Father Heathen]

Reason and compassion.

 

[Kenny]

Personal convictions driven by The Word of God as expressed in the NT of the Bible

 

[BSM1]

Having accepted the illusion of life as we know it I understand morality is also an illusion. We choose our own moral values. Thankfully most of us choose a morality that doesn't harm others.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

What is the source of your morality?

Empathy.

1. Morality is the belief that some behaviour is right and acceptable and that other behaviour is wrong.

Synonyms: virtue, justice, principles, morals

2. A morality is a system of principles and values concerning people's behaviour, which is generally accepted by a society or by a particular group of people. Collin's English Dictionary

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other person's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position.[1] There are many definitions for empathy that encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.[2] Wiki

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Well there you go using the actual definition of words to explain yourself. Are trying to stir up trouble?

 

[ArtieE]

I would like to know a few things from you:
1. Is morality objective?

Sort of. Evolution and Functionally Objective Morality - The Gemsbok

2. Does morality come from a single source?

Evolution and natural selection.

4. What is your explanation for your morality?

Evolution and natural selection.

 

[suncowiam]

Golden rule which probably can be expressed as empathy.

 

[ajay0]

The golden rule , and also going by my intuitions stemming from mindfulness/Awareness.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

1. Is morality objective?

No.

2. Does morality come from a single source?

No.

4. What is your explanation for your morality?

Those friends sat down and the Lord gave a progressive talk, that is, on virtue, on heaven, on the danger, the futility and the disadvantages of sense pleasures and the advantages of giving them up. Then, when the Lord knew that their minds were ready, malleable, free from hindrance, uplifted and gladdened, he explained to them the teaching which is unique to the Buddhas—suffering, its cause, its overcoming and the way to its overcoming.

Mahākhandhaka, Pāli Theravāda Khandhaka 1

"It's not that I'm afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -Woody Allen

Developing discipline in wisdom, meditation, and moral discipline. Be free spirited and creative.

The source of morality: liberation

 

[YmirGF]

1. Is morality objective?
Though there are a few areas most, but not all, will agree, morality is largely subjective.

2. Does morality come from a single source?
No. I'm pretty sure you can get it on Amazon and the Microsoft store if you are low.

4. What is your explanation for your morality?
I don't often think in terms of morality as it seems oddly irrelevant in most cases. Life experience is probably the biggest contributor.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I would like to know a few things from you:
1. Is morality objective?
2. Does morality come from a single source?
3. For theists: Are there any morals defined in your religious text you disagree with? If so, why?
4. What is your explanation for your morality?

1. Morality is both objective and unobtainable, only approachable.
2. Morality is Morality and has no source. Its like an idea, pattern, operator or transformation.
3. If something in the text seems immoral then I object.
4. The human race is typically dishonest with itself. Everything depends upon being dishonest and honest at the right times. Perfect morality is a moving target. The objective of peace and preventing violence and hate is moral. This means doing things you do not want to, sometimes smiling when you don't feel like it, letting other people have their way and so on. It is orderly rather than chaotic, going against the grain. The default is to act in ignorance, to let hurts embitter so we can strike back hard, cruel and paranoid. Morality steps over this initial impulse to harm and requires thought and forgiveness where possible.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I would like to know a few things from you:
1. Is morality objective?
2. Does morality come from a single source?
3. For theists: Are there any morals defined in your religious text you disagree with? If so, why?
4. What is your explanation for your morality?

1) No.
2) No.
3) Don't have a religious text, I both agree and disagree with portions of the various texts I have read that have contributed to my current beliefs and practices.
4) Respect and the Golden Rule concept.

 

[MonkeyFire]

I would like to know a few things from you:
1. Is morality objective?
2. Does morality come from a single source?
3. For theists: Are there any morals defined in your religious text you disagree with? If so, why?
4. What is your explanation for your morality?

1. Morality is both objective and subjective. It's personal instrest but a majority of them.
2. Morality is a fallen angel.
3. I don't think Lucifer is the same as or another name for Satan.

 

[MonkeyFire]

I would like to know a few things from you:
1. Is morality objective?
2. Does morality come from a single source?
3. For theists: Are there any morals defined in your religious text you disagree with? If so, why?
4. What is your explanation for your morality?

1. Morality is both objective and subjective. It's personal instrest but a majority of them.
2. Morality is a fallen angel.
3. I don't think Lucifer is the same as or another name for Satan.
4. Required, not acquired.

 

[columbus]

I voted "other", although personal convictions plays a big part.

I see selfishness as the foundation of morality. We always choose to do what we think best for us at the moment of choosing. We aren't free to do anything else, we're programmed to do that.
The difference between moral choices, and amoral or immoral, is the likely outcome. Amoral choices have little consequence. Immoral choices have destructive consequences, and the destructiveness is pretty well established. Someone might think that stealing benefits them, but it doesn't. You can't live in a world where people don't steal, if you yourself steal. And a world where people don't steal would be a better place to live than what we have now.
I see moral behavior as simply the most enlightened kind of selfishness. It's the principles underlying the code of ethics that would result in us all living in paradise. Immorality is choosing behavior that is destructive, usually self destructive as well as degrading the entire human situation.
Tom