Do you thin there is a Universal Moral Code when you our asked to *DO THE RIGHT THING*?

Question

Or do you think doing the right thing should be on an individual basis?
If there is only right and wrong then wouldn't you think thier is only one Universal Code for what is right?

Answer 1

Yes - it's called God's Moral law. It was written on every ones heart at creation. Because of the fall of man and our own personal sin it is obscured. However enough is still seen to make us accountable to God.

Answer 2

Hmm. The right thing to some folks is blowing up a car in the middle of a market full of innocent people. For others it is to drop a laser guided missile into a market full of innocent people.

Ah, yes, there IS a universal moral code. Best advice about what is right is to stay out of markets.

Answer 3

No. All morality is goal based. The goal is determined by the nature of the Self, the nature of the Tribe, and the nature of the Other. Since these natures change with time and circumstance, there is no Universal Moral Code.

Answer 4

you're making some fasle assumptions precise off the bat. Premeditated homicide is fairly lots universally considerd incorrect as are maximum of what we call the ten commandments. in fact, it may be argued that the ten commandments are a consequence of mixing policies human beings already lived via. somebody already suggested Hamurabi's Code which predates the bible. many civilizations international extensive who under no circumstances heard of the bible had ethical codes in place that predate judaism and christianity. having some uncomplicated ethical frequently occurring is purely helpful, even to evil human beings. Even animals of existence like intelligence have uncomplicated ethical dispositions. you will discover extra adult males killing for "recreation" than animals.

Answer 5

No there is no universally applicable code. No two situations are the same in the real world, and relativism has the flexibility to deal with all situations.

Answer 6

The bible is the Universal Moral Code
There is always a limit people will put on others (if they want none on themselves).
Ask a question about prayer and see how many "PC tolerant" people will mock,*****,LOL,say to stop,report to YA.

Answer 7

The interesting thing is, even atheists have morals and believe some things are right and wrong. There is an anthropological argument that comes from this known as the “moral argument.” The argument is this: Man has within him a moral nature, a sense of “oughtness”; where did it come from?

As C. S. Lewis said, “Human beings all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it.”

You see, there arises in all of us, in any culture, universal feelings of right and wrong. Wherever you go, people in every place and every walk of life, say things like: “That’s not fair.” “How would you like it if someone did that to you?” “That’s my seat, I was there first.” “Come on, you promised.” When people say things like that, they are appealing to some kind of standard of behavior which they expect the other person to know.

The other person doesn’t say, “forget your standard,” but almost always tries to make an excuse to show that they really didn’t go against the standard. As C.S. Lewis said about this standard, “...the moment anyone tells me I am not keeping it, there starts up in my mind a string of excuses as long as your arm.” You know, there are reasons why you should be let off the hook. That time you were unfair to the children was when you were very tired. That slightly shady business about the money came when you were very hard-up. You never would have promised that if you would have known how busy you were going to be. And then comes the argument between these two people. It is clear that they both believe in a standard or they couldn’t argue about it. You can’t argue that a football player committed a foul unless there is some agreement about the rules of football.

If morality is simply something learned from our culture, as they want us to believe, then why are the moral teachings of the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Chinese, Indians, Greeks and Romans so very similar? C. S. Lewis talked a lot about this. Has there ever been a culture where people were admired for running away in battle? Or admired for being selfish (even though they might differ about who you should be unselfish to)? Men have differed on things like whether you should have one wife or four, but they have always agreed that you must not simply have any woman you liked. In the words of Thomas Mayberry, “There is broad agreement that lying, promise breaking, killing, and so on are generally wrong.”

And whenever you find someone who says they don’t believe in right or wrong, you will find them going back on it a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you break one to him, he will immediately be complaining “It’s not fair!” Even a thief gets upset and feels wronged when someone steals from him. As it has been said, “If there is no God, no atheist can object on moral grounds if I want to kill him.”

I had an atheist friend some years back that I would always argue creation/evolution with. One day he came in and told me how mad he got from watching a documentary on the Holocaust. I can’t remember exactly what I said, but I thought, “Why are you so mad; it’s just survival of the fittest, right? You don’t even believe there is such a thing as right and wrong.” You see, no matter how much he denies it, he feels that standard as well as I do.

So, where did it come from? We don’t see it in animals. Oh, they will sometimes act nice toward their own families, and evolutionists will try to point to that as the beginnings of morality, but that is a far cry from what we see in humans. A dog doesn’t feel guilt from stealing another dog’s bone. Apes don’t sit down and talk about morals and ethics. If an ox gores a man to death, it is not arrested, tried, and condemned to the electric chair. We recognize its inability to make moral judgments and so we might just confine it in a sturdier pen and warn people to stay away. If we evolved from animals, how did we come to be moral creatures?

Could non-moral matter combined with time and chance be an adequate cause for this? If people are merely products of physical evolution and “survival of the fittest,” why do we sacrifice for each other? Where does courage, dying for a cause, love, dignity, duty, and compassion come from? This seems to be the opposite of what evolution would produce; in a struggle for survival, will the existence of a conscience help or hinder survival?

How does “survival of the fittest” fit with jumping on a grenade to save your fellow soldiers? Or pushing someone out of the way to take the oncoming car yourself? It is often the strong who do these things. How can you procreate and pass your genes on to your offspring if you are dead?

As Eric Lyons has asked, “Why are humans moral beings if, as evolutionists teach, we merely evolved from lifeless, mindless, unconscious matter over billions of years? Why do humans feel a sense of ‘ought’ to help the poor, weak, and oppressed if we simply evolved by the natural law of ‘might makes right’ (i.e., survival of the fittest)?”

I have to agree with John Adam, “...according to the evolutionary principle of survival of the fittest, a loving human with a conscience is at a great disadvantage and would be unlikely to have survived the evolutionary process.”

To me, it fits much better that there is a moral God who placed morals within us.

Answer 8

there is no universal right thing. ex: killing animals; is it wrong to put weak animals out of their misery, or should we atleast let them have a natural death?

Answer 9

Most people know what the *right* thing is. Whether they chose to do it is up to them.

Answer 10

There is no code. It falls on you.