Are morals for the "weak"? Who is weak and who is strong? The fittest see themselves as superior, winners...

Question

and could care less about right and wrong.
at least thats how it seems, is this true or not????
look at politicians, large corporatons etc.

think of one who stick to his morals until the end no matter what, is he strong?

Answer 1

Moral success is not measured by a fat bank account. What has happened is we have confused monetary success with honor. It is not easy to live a moral life, religion aside. Just because one is smart and able does not mean they are excused from responsibility. Strength comes from living your life according to your convictions.

Answer 2

That all depends on what eyes you're looking through. Those people with the "killer instinct" are considered strong because they will go through metaphoric walls to get what and where they want even if it means trampling the "little people" and lying to no end. Those who stick to their morals are considered strong because they let nothing and no one change their point of view. My opinion? The one who sticks to his morals is the strongest. It takes an enormous amount of courage to stick to your guns no matter who attacks your morality. It's being a leader, not a follower. It's going up when everyone else says "go down". It's going the right way when the whole world is willingly going the wrong way. Winning in society's eyes isn't always the valid victory.

Answer 3

Throughout life perhaps the single largest certainty is the
certainty that the individual will have to live with themself.
In this regard morality is arguably the foundation for
all authenticity. If an individual finds it inconvenient to
obey their morality then the individual might feel compelled
to alter their environment in hopes of changing their
morality. Such a motion is tempting because if the
individual can succeed in reducing the morality of
their environment then their internal immorality might
appear to be morally justified. In this process the greatest
opposition to the application of external immorality
is the external-internal morality of other individuals.
The level of external morality can be measured as the
summation of other individual's morality.
In my opinion, moral strength is a measure of endurance
for the moral individual to persevere through the aggressions
of immorality without losing their own morality. It is tempting
for the moral individual to change strategies when confronted
by the immoral aggression, but in changing strategies
the moral individual places themself on unfamiliar grounds
which have the potential for immorality. When morality
is concerned the one best strategy is authenticity.

Answer 4

Having morals, other people know they can depend on you.

Showing you lack morals, in difficult times people will not trust you.

Society depends on the majority "doing the right thing". When the majority, does not society falls apart.

Donald Trump wants to make millions, billions. But he depends on plumbers and electricians and construction workers to do their work well so buildings have value. They have daily satifcation in a job well done,and they live comfortably. He just sucks money and tries not to be bored.

When Donald Trump lays dying, what will he have accomplished ? A memorable bad wig, or whatever that is on his head that looks like doubled back hair.

Answer 5

Read "the Genealogy of Morals" by Frederich Nietzche. He touches on this topic, and would do so better than anyone here could.

To paraphrase the book, Nietzche divides people into two types of morality; the Master morality and the slave morality.

Nietzsche defined master morality as the morality of the strong-willed. For these men the 'good' is the noble, strong and powerful, while the 'bad' is the weak, cowardly, timid and petty. Other qualities that are often valued in master moralities are open-mindedness, courage, truthfulness, trust and a sense of self-worth. Master morality begins in the 'noble man' with a spontaneous idea of the good, then the idea of bad develops in opposition to it. (On the Genealogy of Morals, First Essay, Section 11) He said: "The noble type of man experiences itself as determining values; it does not need approval; it judges, 'what is harmful to me is harmful in itself'; it knows itself to be that which first accords honor to things; it is value-creating." (Beyond Good and Evil). While the masters can be thought of as the creators, it can be said that the slaves merely react to the conditions created by others.

Slave morality begins in those people who are weak, uncertain of themselves, oppressed and abused. Understandably, characteristics of those who fall under the slave morality often include being pessimistic, distrustful and sceptical. They are particularly wary of the things that their oppressors value as "good". The essence of slave morality is utility: the good is what is most useful for the community as a whole. Since the powerful are few in number compared to the masses of the weak, the weak gain power vis-a-vis the strong by treating those qualities that are valued by the powerful (the things that cause their own unsatisfactory condition) as "evil," and those qualities that enable sufferers to endure their lot or improve their condition as "good."

Nietzche also says the overman is neither a Master nor a Slave. Hence his phrase "beyond good and evil"

Answer 6

I think I can answer part of your question: the weak are those who take from others and call it winning. The strong are those who look for and find happiness in something besides material success and dominance. Morals are kind of beside the point, I think, since as you say, one could "morally" justify greed and corruption by saying it is "fitness" and therefore "superior." Sticking to your morals isn't strength in itself; if you must sacrifice to stick to them it's fortitude but if you stick to them in order to "win" you are a coward and just being stubborn.

Answer 7

The expression means : Survival of those more "fit" to the situation. Adapted if you will. The murderers of the earths resources will cause our demise probably. So the fittest are those who don't make too much trouble.

You would love 'Tao Te King', by Lao Tseu.
He's a chinese philosopher or 3000 yrs ago I think. He philosophises about "the way" of all things.
Which is strong, but never violent.
Like the babys arm, he never 'works out', yet it is strong. Women, in their compassion and care, are strong.
Men, who use force for instant gratification, are weak.

Answer 8

To be moral takes great strength. It is hard to refrain from meaningless sex. It is hard to keep from hating others. It is hard to take care of our bodies through proper diet and exercise.
It is easy to cast away any attempt at morality and just do whatever feels good.
I think that to be moral is to be strong. To be immoral is to be weak.

Answer 9

A well connected, strongly moral and ethical person can be a great success. But if you have to work your way up, it is very, very difficult. In the work-a-day world, it is a truism that good guys finish last.