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Anonymous, 2 yr 74 days ago

 Rommie wrote:
Thanks for the complement, Conus, but I think I may have been misunderstood. What I really want to know is this:

How may we know what is right and what is wrong? In particular, how do you derive your knowledge/belief of what is right and what is wrong? That's really all I'm asking.

Rommie

morality 
noun [C or U]
a personal or social set of standards for good or bad behaviour and character, or the quality of being right, honest or acceptable.

Everyone has a sense of morality that is formed by inherent qualities (personal set of standards) as well as upbringing (social set of standards). Consequently, what we think is good or bad, that we do not always act on, anyway, is a matter of opinion and where you belong.


 

Insider  +  420473 Tue, 18 Sep 07 10:17 AM

 Conus Lotus wrote:
Thanks Rommie.
I once read that anything that improves the world is morally right. Anything that weakens the world is morally wrong. How do we tell? Well that calls for wisdom.
I know this is maybe too simplistic. I must give this more thought.
Cheers Smile [:)]

Dear Conus,

I was just about to agree with you, then I remembered human factor in all that happening in the world. Morality is human-bound perception. So long as good and bad things are caused by human to the world, difficult to categorize then things as being moral or immoral. Like, desire to have sex is immoral when it is resulted in increase of prostitution, human-trafficking, prevalence of STI etc., but moral within the marraige, love, continuation of human race etc. Thus, anything is done with goodwill is moral, while the same thing is done with ill-will is immoral.

What is morality?! I feel, it is a life-long question to think about.

Re-cheers!Smile [:)]

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