What's moral?

Question

What's moral to do what's right and fight for justice? Or listen to your parents?
If your parents are being injust, should you let them be out of respect, or it more moral to fight for the truth no matter who you're fighting against?

Answer 1

Let your conscience be your guide, which is the inner guidance system we were given, (unless it is seared by very wrong choices you have made prior, then you're screwed.)
No need to fight. You can suggest, or debate.
Usually things are not as bad as they seem. And they generally work themselves out.
Respect for parental position is recommended, (because there is a law of cause and effect,) but that does not mean that you do not disagree at times.
Ego should not have a place in your disagreements, as it blinds us as to the importance of the matter. You need to listen and know where they are coming from to understand the whole picture. That is true wisdom.
You need to know when to let things be, and when to let yourself be heard. Practice makes perfect.
I hope that answers your question.

Answer 2

Well, it depends on the "injust." Sometimes a child has to learn off the mistake of a parent understand what happens in the long run. An example would be an alcoholic parent. Should the child see over and over the effects and nature of it, two things will happen. 1; they will not drink, or 2; "The sins of the father have fallen on the son." Now abuse, rat them out.

Answer 3

The quick response is...do what's right. But what is right?

I have this nagging sense the issue is more complex than that. Morality denotes perception of what's right and wrong. It is subjective, rising and dipping from person to person, depending on each person's perception and of the standards being used...which morality standard should I use to measure and appraise my morality and those of others?

Your question implies the parents were immoral or had a lower perception of morality from mine. Which brings the question..what standard did my parents used to guide them in their moral decisions. If the answer is the same standard as mine, then doing what is right is straightforward because we were comparing apples with apples and could in fact determine if my parents were unjust.

The assessment get more complicated when my parents used a different set of standards. For then I have to compare apples against oranges. Who's to say my moral is right and my parent's not? It is easy to postulate this scenario: My parents thinking they were right. And me thinking they were wrong.

Which brings us to the core of your question. Fighting for the truth no matter who you're fighting against! Sound simple..yet in the context of what we just discussed above, truth in this instance was an illusive element. Is my truth also my parents' truth? Therein lies the rub...it's the dilemma that caused so much heartache in this world. When we became so convinced of our truth, we bother not to dissect this truth, we just enforce it no matter the cost.

A classic example perhaps is the endocrination of children by the Nazi so their brand of truth was followed by these children turning in their parents in for voicing their own brand of truth.

I guess my short answer is listen to the parents' explanation, dialogue with the parents, get a full understanding of the issue, then perform an indepth analysis, assessment, make an objective conclusion then, and only then, would you do what you thought was right.

Answer 4

To find what is moral, we must first find what is immoral. I'm a christian so I must look at this from a biblical viewpoint. Immorality is sin, and sin is anything which is in objection to the character of God. In example, we would all agree that killing is wrong, but why? Because the law says so? Because God says so? Murder is wrong because God is life, therefore murder is going against God's character. Moral is defined as "guided by or in accordance with one's sense of right and wrong", but who are we to decide what is right and what is wrong? If I say that lying is fine and you say it's not, who is right? Most would simply argue that "it just is". You see, when we take God out of the equation we're left with one sinful humans word against another. God created us, and when He did He called us good. Yet man chose to disobey and go against the boundries God had set up (they went in opposition to God's Character) and in that way "bad" or "sin" was introduced into the world. In conclusion, the only way to truly be moral is to stop looking to man and start looking to God. Unless we turn to the one and only true higher power we're just a lost people on a hopeless crusade for something called right.

Answer 5

part of me wants to say, it depends on the age of a child and what you mean when you say their being unjust, you know.
the other part says screw that and FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT, what's more fun then showing your parents up anway? only kidding HAHA

Answer 6

What is moral is finding what benefits the both of you.

Answer 7

Man made monster which demand to serve Him.. Absurdity in many cases...

Answer 8

moral: getting away with as much as you can without getting caught!