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Sunday, January 6, 2013
morality
Morality
Mo~ral~i~ty
Stanford's encyclopedia of philosophy explains that he term morality can be used either;
1.) descriptively to refer to some codes of conductput forward by society or,
a.) s disallowing ourome other group, such as a religion, or
b.)normatively to refer to a code of conduct that given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational persons.
Morality, is an extremely touchy topic to go into for a multitude of reasons many of which deal directly with the fact that it is based on factors of an interpersonal base. There is really no right or wrong perception of the word or its definition for it becomes the definitive method of the individual. However, it's in my own personal opinion the morality over the course of the last few years or so is begining to cease to exhist. We as a civilization have abandoned that general compassion that was once shared from one to another. For reasons that many of us are completely oblivious to, but i believe i have a theory and that theory may be the disadvantage to technological advances. We have become so consumed by our computers, smart phones, social networks, etc. That we have all but completely abandoned inter-personal relationships and/or interaction which i believe has a great deal to do with the depleteing of morality. We fail one another by disallowing ourselves the oppertunity of ever truly knowing one another past the pictures, posted statuses and small talk of our various social networking sites. Birthing an era of anti-social socialites that when put into situations where morality and the logic it enables a person to have should prevail we end up with situations like the mass shooting at the middle school in Conecticuit this past December at what point exactly do we as a society figure something desperately needs too happen.
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It's no wonder our society's morals and values have crumbled and continue to dteriorate- we as a society have taken God out of everything that we do and how we live! God is the root of all things good! God is love! Its not the technology that is the problem, its how we use it and how we let it use us. Its a lack of love (God) for ourselves others as well as right and wrong. We have been taught now and inundated in the media, schools, workplace even some churches that there is no clear right or wrong. That there is no good and evil. Nothing in itself is wicked or unrighteous basically if it feels good or right just do it. When did we become like this? When did we become afraid of offending people by saying no this is wrong, this is evil, wicked or wretched? People have become so selfish and self centered and dont want to be bothered with anything that doesnt seem to directly affect them immediately so do or say nothing. But what they don't realize that all things affect all of us as a society, slowly eroding our morality and decency as a whole! We need God back in our country, families, schools, workplaces, churches and our hearts if we are to ever regain our morality as a society!
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