Ethics and Morality (#39)
Ethics and Morality is one of the biggest debates from and by all human beings, known in the world itself.
New studies found by Fans de Waal (Dutch born psychologist, ethologist and primatologist) suggests that morality is inbred in human nature and all nature itself. I always thought this was partly the case, my opinion is that some of it seems to be learned, and a lot more of it seems to be inbred, but then how do you explain the rapists and murderers for doing what they do?
If morality is already inbred, then how is it people can go about doing something like murder? It's pretty obvious, all one has to do is consciously and relentlessly tell themselves that they need or want to do something like murder, and its OK to do it, then nothing stands in their way of thinking that this is ok, and then doing something like committing murder, genocide, or destruction can be fine enough, if its justified enough.
As spoken by many religious faiths (i'm not trying to stereotype), and many individuals themselves, many say that we should start teaching morality and ethics and the mentality and examples of what right and wrong is. The understanding behind this logic is that if you teach morality and ethics, many people that learn from the teaching, that would potentially commit such "unjust" acts like murder, or stealing, or harming another individual (mentally or physically), that upon learning this teaching of morality and right and wrong, that the potential harming individual will refrain from doing these "bad" things and thus, lower the amount of "bad" things that go on in life.
But that wont stop anyone, if someone TRULY believes, or has something justified enough in his or her own mind, that they can and want to do something, its simple, they will do it. Right and wrong is relative, and can be manipulated by someones mind, to do or not to do something. This happens because it is a case of defined absolutes. Absolutes like right and wrong do not exist, because it cant be ultimatly defined. The terms right and wrong are all semantic and situational and can be manipulated.
I think instead of teaching what IS right and wrong, I think we should rather teach what is the term morality, why something is right or wrong instead of teaching blind analogies and teaching that if you don't keep these analogies then you clearly are a "bad" individual. We should teach the meaning of ethics and teach what it means to say something is right or wrong, go one step further and understand the process of morality and ethics, thats what we should teach. Thinking processes should be taught, not definitions or absolutes, let the individual decide for themselves upon learning, what it is that makes up of the underlying meaning of such phrases.
New studies found by Fans de Waal (Dutch born psychologist, ethologist and primatologist) suggests that morality is inbred in human nature and all nature itself. I always thought this was partly the case, my opinion is that some of it seems to be learned, and a lot more of it seems to be inbred, but then how do you explain the rapists and murderers for doing what they do?
If morality is already inbred, then how is it people can go about doing something like murder? It's pretty obvious, all one has to do is consciously and relentlessly tell themselves that they need or want to do something like murder, and its OK to do it, then nothing stands in their way of thinking that this is ok, and then doing something like committing murder, genocide, or destruction can be fine enough, if its justified enough.
As spoken by many religious faiths (i'm not trying to stereotype), and many individuals themselves, many say that we should start teaching morality and ethics and the mentality and examples of what right and wrong is. The understanding behind this logic is that if you teach morality and ethics, many people that learn from the teaching, that would potentially commit such "unjust" acts like murder, or stealing, or harming another individual (mentally or physically), that upon learning this teaching of morality and right and wrong, that the potential harming individual will refrain from doing these "bad" things and thus, lower the amount of "bad" things that go on in life.
But that wont stop anyone, if someone TRULY believes, or has something justified enough in his or her own mind, that they can and want to do something, its simple, they will do it. Right and wrong is relative, and can be manipulated by someones mind, to do or not to do something. This happens because it is a case of defined absolutes. Absolutes like right and wrong do not exist, because it cant be ultimatly defined. The terms right and wrong are all semantic and situational and can be manipulated.
I think instead of teaching what IS right and wrong, I think we should rather teach what is the term morality, why something is right or wrong instead of teaching blind analogies and teaching that if you don't keep these analogies then you clearly are a "bad" individual. We should teach the meaning of ethics and teach what it means to say something is right or wrong, go one step further and understand the process of morality and ethics, thats what we should teach. Thinking processes should be taught, not definitions or absolutes, let the individual decide for themselves upon learning, what it is that makes up of the underlying meaning of such phrases.
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