If morals are the code in which we see good and evil, then without them, we would not catagorise anything as good or bad. It would just be. It is true to say that what is considered right to one person is considered wrong to another, morally, and societies or civilisations are made up on agreed moral codes.
When people say, "if we didn't have morals, the world would live in chaos" it is true to a certain extent but if we knew not what good or bad was, chaos would not be considered to be bad or good.
Are morals merely the same as religious belief, political standings and laws. Are they just something that was man-made to keep order in society to stop us from living freely. When I say freely. I mean like an animal who eats it's brother to stay alive. Free from judgement internally and externally. Is the "natural sense of good and bad" the most unatural thing we could do. Was Freud right. Is "civilisation" what make the human so destructive because we surpress our instincts?..
2007-11-19
02:54:33
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Dan G
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