old hippie here-getting late and i thought to leave you with a question-?

Question

do you get your morals from your chosen path or did your morals choose your path?-----------------thanks i have enjoyed the questions and answers tonight have fun-keep the peace and lots of love

i want everyone to read and vote on this one lots of good answers here-thanks all

Answer 1

I think your morals help choose your path. I too am an old hippie, peace 2 u.

Answer 2

I think it is a combination of the two. The morals that you learned while very young steer you in a certain direction, and then that path provides you with multiple choices along the way in which your learned morals are challenged and you can either keep to the prior path, or decide to bend or completely change at some point and head into another direction either from outside pressure or from questioning what you thought you knew to be so, - then you go on your way from that point, only to come to a point where ahead of you there lies another set of choices - a crossroads in which your morals can guide you on the same path or you can change or bend them to another path yet again, and on and on until the end of your journey in this life. The paths criss cross and have many twists and turns, and can also end up back where you made a prior turn and decided that was not the best way after all. Life is full of those choices, and sometimes the path dictates which choices will pop up, other times we just somehow get that 'light bulb' that goes off and we elect to make our own choice in midstream, then backtrack to where a certain choice was left hanging. Wild, isn't it?

Answer 3

You are who you were born to be. A person with few morals will probably make more moral mistakes, then a "moral" person. But that doesn't mean that an immoral person can't change. It happens all the time. So, an immoral person going through life, can one day see the error of his ways, and knowing right from wrong will turn over a new leaf, so to speak, and become "moral".

So in essence, the answer to your question is both. Your path gives you choices, your morality makes them. Somewhere along that path, you either wake up and let new morals take over, or you continue on. It is all in the person.

This question can be answered without bringing God into it. A person can go from an immoral person to a moral one, just by living life, and vice versa. Take care.

Answer 4

The wise would hope that their path would choose their morals - the realistic would know their morals usually choose their path - the result is that once the morals have failed them time and time again, a narrow path lends itself to be traveled upon which their morals are forgiven and their chosen path is then followed with much wisdom and joy in the Lord.

Answer 5

The path chose me and gave me my morals. And my morals keep me on the path. Instant karma's a good teacher.

Answer 6

My morals helped me choose my path. I am Pagan.

Peace and lots of love to you, too, my friend.

Answer 7

My morals have helped me to choose my path. Although, throughout my life, my path has led me in directions I did not foresee and I found my morals challenged. Sometimes my path shook the fabric of who I believed myself to be... bringing about change (which is good).

Answer 8

Morals should choose your path, otherwise your morals are coming from outside influences, not from the heart.

Answer 9

Morals that were given to me by my church and parents choose my path. Something that seems to be missing from the youth of today.

Answer 10

Morals choose your path.
For instance The US Congress....Imagine if they had morals...People with low or no morals go into politics.

People with morals become teachers and humanitarians or volunteer for the military. In the military the ones with the lowest morals become officers.