What does Morality mean to you?

JDMPWR

I am playing devils advocate here and seeing how and who taught you what morality is and what your morals are? What in your life dictates what is good and what is bad? I am posting this because most of us just saw the married man locked post PLUS I watched the movie Crash last night and was reading a book that dove deeply into morals and who/how and why they are in someone's live and how they are created as a viewpoint of the person passing them on to someone else.

Please fill this post with your moral views BUT no fighting just adult like conversation please

JennaM222

To me it is very simple....if you have to ask if it is is wrong/what to do, you already know it is. Morality is up to every single one of us to decide for ourselves ( society will always be there to argue ) but I think it is quite simple. We already know.

AngelaPowPowPOW

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freerange

To me it is very simple....if you have to ask if it is is wrong/what to do, you already know it is. Morality is up to every single one of us to decide for ourselves ( society will always be there to argue ) but I think it is quite simple. We already know.

+1

JDMPWR

I feel this is wrong. I feel your environment tells you what is wrong and right and society but you maybe brought up in a social environment that is on a totally different wave length then others.

FearAnLoathing

Morality to me is dont do anything to someone you wouldnt want done to you.

bbygrl5

I try to abide by the golden rule (treat others like you want to be treated), that's what morality means to me.

BflSaberfan

The most important thing I've ever learned was probably before I could even talk. "Treat others the way you'd want to be treated".

I guess for me topics like that are just so obvious that you shouldn't have to ask. I think between my grandparents, parents and teachers I learned most of my morals but alot of it just come iwth age and experience I think.

theresaaugello

I believe that everyone knows the difference between the right and wrong thing to do. When you become personally involved in a situation your brain has a way to make the wrong things seem like the best choice, whether it be to gain something or get ahead in life.

People tend to make decisions based on what's good for them at the time even though the consequenses may catch up to them later on.

SaraTonin

You want to ask the Philosophy major?

My ethical theory of choice is a combination of intuitionism and Kant's moral imperative.

Intuitionism is the belief that we have a moral "faculty," or drive, built into us psychologically that governs our behavior. It is the same as your gut feeling, sort of a pull in the right direction, or a conscience.

Immanuel Kant's moral imperative is basically the moral calculus of the Golden Rule. But instead of do unto others as you would have them do unto you, it is "Only act upon that maxim which you could at the same time will into universal law."

What the hell does that mean?

Don't do it if you wouldn't want everyone doing it.

The easy example is vaccinating. You don't want to vaccinate your kid because of rumors of the side-effects, but if EVERYONE didn't vaccinate kids, your kid would likely die of malaria - deadly diseases that we have vaccinations to thank for wiping out.

Another example? Recycling. You can't expect everyone to do it if you don't.

So you do what you can will into universal law.

Still_Sossy

I try to abide by the golden rule (treat others like you want to be treated), that's what morality means to me.

^^^^^^ That,... and go with your gut, if it feels wrong then it probably is. I also believe in karma so I think what goes around comes around and you get out of life what you put into it. May not work for some but it works for me.

JDMPWR

I know most of my moral values were applied to my brother and myself from the viewpoint of my mother and how my parents dysfunctional relationship applied to those morals and then after reading a book about how the 100 richest and most powerful men did not believe in the concept of morals in the traditional sense and only in there later years did they realize this and try to step back and "make up" for the lack of morality in the years it took them to reach the pinnacle of their careers.

RoadDog

Before I was married and had children, not getting caught was the same thing to me as not doing it.

JDMPWR

Before I was married and had children, not getting caught was the same thing to me as not doing it.

Exactly my point.......that was morality right to you on some level even if just an excuse more then an answer.

MeliciousMelis

In the context of, for example, a marital affair, my morality dictates that to hurt someone else, in the process of achieving my own personal satisfaction or pleasure, at the expense of another humans well being, or even worse, at the risk of tearing apart a family would be WRONG and therefore result in a KARMIC ***** SLAP of epic proportions.


Just sayin.

BigBeaver

Okay, let me be honest, apparently when I read the topic, I was thinking mortality, and totally was gonna post "Mortal Kombat is the coolest game ever!" But I do kinda agree with Jenna and FearAnLoathing. Morals are similar but widely different by the way you were raised, based on your family structure, religious affiliation, so on and so forth. Is it moral to covet a married man or woman, no, that is one of the ten commandments, "thy shall not covet thy neighbors wife" but then again, in a polygimist (sp) society, that may be okay, and considered moral to them.

Morality is a question of right and wrong, depending on social norms as well as nature, nuture and upbringing. So it depends on a great number of factors.
However, in the case of the post about the married man, she wasn't asking anything about morallity, she wanted someone to tell her, go for it. Morallity wasn't in question, carnal knowledge was.

Ashley_Panda

Do unto others...

I hold my wedding vows sacred. My husband would say the same.

EDesq

For Me Morality is so Broad it can only encompass the Golden Rule: Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You (I Want For Others What I Want For Myself!)

NOW VALUES and Ethics are a WHOLE DIFFERENT Topic>>>How DO You Live, ACTUALLY LIVE! Morality is to Values as Reputation is to Character.

Myslissa

I try to abide by the golden rule (treat others like you want to be treated), that's what morality means to me.

^^^^^^ That,... and go with your gut, if it feels wrong then it probably is. I also believe in karma so I think what goes around comes around and you get out of life what you put into it. May not work for some but it works for me.

Amen on both quotes. Karma and the Golden Rule.

AngelaPowPowPOW

Okay, let me be honest, apparently when I read the topic, I was thinking mortality, and totally was gonna post "Mortal Kombat is the coolest game ever!"

:laugh:

JDMPWR

I feel wedding vows are applied to via religion. Would you agree? Well in that same statement how many people that hold their wedding vows so sacred were both virgins when they wed? I feel piece of morality applied by religion has been washed away over time....wonder why that is?

Maybe I should retitle the post to morals/values?

suzycreamcheese

do as you would be done by

AngelaPowPowPOW

I feel wedding vows are applied to via religion. Would you agree? Well in that same statement how many people that hold their wedding vows so sacred were both virgins when they wed? I feel piece of morality applied by religion has been washed away over time....wonder why that is?

Maybe I should retitle the post to morals/values?

That wouldn't be morals as much as a code of conduct via the church.

ChunTingO

when that voice in your head is screaming something is wrong! something is wrong! that is that subconcious telling you that something is truely wrong.
karma karma karma
when you treat others poorly it comes back 3x worse!

wonnder1

Everything you need to know.

* Share.
* Play fair.
* Don't hit people.
* Put things back where you found them.
* Clean up your own mess.
* Don't take things that aren't yours.
* Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
* Wash your hands before you eat.
* Flush.
* Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
* Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
* Take a nap every afternoon.
* When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
* Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
* Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
* And then remember the ****-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.

JennLifts

I've been raised in a positive environment, and to be honest.. I just follow my heart. Or spirit... or what ever you want to call it It seems to usually be right!

EDesq

I have NOT read that Infamous Post about the Married Man. But just let Me say this...WHY is all of the Blame falling on the woman who IS NOT MARRIED? DID SHE make a VOW before GOD and Man to be Faithful to her spouse...OH SHE is NOT Married! So My question: WHO is REALLY Breaking Up a Marriage>>>For Me, it is the Person who MADE The VOW! That person's Morality and Values need to be questioned as well as the poor misguided person also in the adulterous relationship with the VOWED Person.

I always question the self-esteem of the Cheater, Someone who is willing to be a Mistress/Other Man AND PEOPLE who will Over Look The Man's ROLE as the Cheater/Home Wrecker. Why does the man always get a Pass!?

JDMPWR

* Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

I dont believe in this. If I hurt someone and I knew I was going to and it was done with purpose then why would I say I am sorry for it?

jamiesgotagun

Morality to me is dont do anything to someone you wouldnt want done to you.

EXACTLY!!!!!!

BflSaberfan

I have NOT read that Infamous Post about the Married Man. But just let Me say this...WHY is all of the Blame falling on the woman who IS NOT MARRIED? DID SHE make a VOW before GOD and Man to be Faithful to her spouse...OH SHE is NOT Married! So My question: WHO is REALLY Breaking Up a Marriage>>>For Me, it is the Person who MADE The VOW! That person's Morality and Values need to be questioned as well as the poor misguided person also in the adulterous relationship with the VOWED Person.

I always question the self-esteem of the Cheater, Someone who is willing to be a Mistress/Other Man AND PEOPLE who will Over Look The Man's ROLE as the Cheater/Home Wrecker. Why does the man always get a Pass!?

I think they both can be equally responsible. No one gives any one a free pass and if it had been the married man asking I'm sure he would have gotten the same responses.

wewon

I think that I'm similar to most people in how my morals were formed, which is mostly 'caught not taught'; a good portion from my parents, some formally from some spiritual teachings, but mostly from trial and error and understanding what "functions" in life and let's us live with ourselves.

Oddly enough, most people seem to come to the same conclusions sooner or later in life, some version of the golden rule.

I've met very few western born people that had a moral code that was much more complex than that. People that have a moral code that is more complicated have often educated themselves into that position.