How far would you go to uphold your moral values?

Question

Pls give hypothetical situations, like forsaking your life or your love ones for patroitism, etc.

Answer 1

I recently have risked loosing a very good freind because I would not do the wrong thing he asked....he came back. I also quit my last job because of moral delimas. If you can't be true to yourself, then wht else is there??

Answer 2

It depends. The thing to remember is everything has a limit and we must learn to live with change. I am not very flexible and easy going in terms of my ideas (perhaps) but if I really need to live with the change, then I might compromise my certain moral values. For instance, if I am kidnapped and if my only way out of the situation is by killing the kidnappers, I'll go for it.

I certainly wouldn't sacrifice my life for country because it's not worth it. You die for your country and the politicians keep enjoying corruption and fooling the people. There is absolutely no point dying a patriot's death and being listed on various political agendas.

I might give my life for something I truly believe in but again that's hypothetical. Being in that very situation can only prove whether I am really up to it.

Answer 3

You always need to keep in mind that your moral values might turn out to be incorrect of confused. So before you go all the way in showing you are true to your values, make sure you values are correct, and recognize that are some many sides to the same story.

Case in point: take the most devout Christian you can find and the most devout Muslim, for instance. They believe with every fiber of their being that the other person is wrong. But how can that be? At least one of them (or both ) must be wrong -- they are mutually-exclusive religions. Does one have accesx to the truth, while the other is misled? Or maybe both are ultimately wrong? Either way, that should give you pause on convictions: even people who are wrong would give up their life in (failing to) showing that they are right.

So no matter how firm you believe your convictions to be, they are just beleifs at the end of the day. To graduate into knowledge, they would have to pass a rigorous test of K=JTB or knowledge=justified true belief. So to know God exists, for example, you would have to believe that claim, and your would have to have justification or a very good reasons for your belief, such as first-hand experience with God or a compelling argument. (Just cause someone, say, your parents tell you at an early age that God is real, doesn't make it so -- just need strong, irrefutable proof.)

Even the things you think you know are actually just beliefs, because your justification or evidence for the knowledge-claim is likely weaker than you think. For instance, I believe God saved me from a car addicent because He loves me (so he only saves those he loves; but how do I know my rescue or suriving the accident unscacthed wasn't a mere coincidence rather than divine interevention? Does God hate the others who died?)

Upshot here is that people really aren't firm in their beliefs; they're ususally influence by your parents, friends, teachers ...and none of this is enough to enable a person to do some soul-searching to find his/her own answer.

Returning to the original question, you should uphold your moral values as far as you are confident in the validity of values, which might easily change among cultures, economic classes.

I remember wanting to enter the first Iraqi war (1990), because I thought it was the right thing to do for America: to defend countries unable to help themselves. But now, if I wouldn't enlist, because it's unclear what we're doing there.

Answer 4

I would go as far as I felt necessary; depending on the situation, that is. I most likely wouldn't risk my own life, unless it involved the life of another. Anyone would die to save another person, it's instinct. But do you catch my drift? Everyone situation has a different moral value, so how far I would be willingg to go to protect my morals would depend on what I was protecting them for.

Answer 5

this could be a complicated one! preliminary innovations alongside the lines of criminal loopholes? Morally something could be very incorrect - and the regulation is obviously attempting to uphold it, even though it won't have the capacity to legislate each condition. i'd look something up around this section and spot in case you may boost. in simple terms an theory!

Answer 6

You should give three hypothetical situations and ask people if they would hold to their moral values for them, then people can respond with their answers.

Answer 7

everyones moral values are different...our country doesnt instill in us the moral value of our freedoms and how we have to fight for it because ITS our freedoms that we were givin that had made the liberals free to distroy this country from within. they have taken our morals away. starting with not allowing us to pray at our moment of silence in schools
then it was the change from holloween to autum fest,then it was merry christmas to seasons greetings and it continues...
in god we trust on our money is even being argued upon... who has time for morals when we are a contry being picked apart,analized and changed from within?

Answer 8

I'll only affirm "values" to the extent that they are things I've construed on my own.

Answer 9

Well I would risk my life for another, like you said. I would die for my faith, and my values.

I wouldnt do a one night stand, stuff like that.

Answer 10

I wouldn't leave my seat. My values do not require travel.