Thursday, May 28, 2009

Making sense saying nothing...

Finally a post worthy of the name of the blog, towards nothing, I haven't wrote one of these on purpose in a while... Anyway, life with morals put you in a strange situation, human beings are moral beings, yet morality is not a straightforward notion. Every person has their own concept of morality and acts accordingly. This is tricky, although you tend to surround yourself with people of the same morality, you never really achieve this. There are as many moralities as people on hearth, so one day or another you will clash with people around you on morals, it is just odds... So the odds are against you on this, if it hasn't happen, well wait for it because it will, if it has happen, well continue to wait for it because it will happen again...
So establishing the clash is the easy bit, the question is what do you do about the clash? Do you stick to your morals, do you abstain from the situation, do you respect others morals, do you impose your morals, etc? the options are endless, the big question is what to do when your morals go against the actions of the people you respect most? This only happens because of different moral values, but what then? Not even adding more variables like logic, and common sense, just morality, what makes us rulers of morality? should we be less strict? At the end of the day my question is when is it OK to push our morals to others, and when is it out of line? When we are doing the right thing? Well in our moral system we are always doing the right thing, so how to know for sure? Ask others? well that would just increase the entropy, after all it is just adding more morals to the pot...
In summary, can anybody follow what I said? and if so any clues on the answers to my questions?

1 comment:

Sarah said...

interesting topic....i have often wondered the same thing and i don't really know the answer. maybe this is why people have religions so that they can follow a set of rules and enforced morals.
i think there is often no right or wrong... if morals conflict you just have to compromise and respect each others opinions.