which is HARDER to HOLD ON to, your SANITY or your MORALITY?

Question

which has more effect over the other?

Answer 1

Morality.

How often are you tempted to let go of your sanity? Honestly.
How often are you tempted to compromise your morality? Much more often.

The correlation between the two is shaky at best. You can be sane and have high moral standards and you can be sane and have few morals at all. If you are insane, you cannot choose to be moral or immoral, so it's not a consideration.

Answer 2

Both can be a bit slippery at times, but while I have my sanity, I'm pretty sure of my morality. If I attempt to divorce morality from sanity, that's the beginning of insanity. Of course there are many people who go insane over or about morality, usually an excess applied to others. I believe in moderation in all things, even moderation. That's how I keep my tenuous hold on what sanity I have.

Answer 3

Obviously both are important, sanity being more effective
in the external and morality being more effective in the
internal. Can an individual be a good example of morality
without being perceived to be sane. Therefore, morality
should exist internally and sanity should facilitate the
propagation of the morality. In my opinion, morality is
more significant than sanity. If an individual is immoral
and appears sane then immorality might propagate as
a misinterpreted good example. If an individual is
moral and appears insane then morality might not
propagate due to a misinterpreted bad example.
However, the morally, appearingly instable, individual
is still a responsible individual even if the example is not
passed on.

Answer 4

Depends on where you are...
When surrounded by insanity its harder to retain one's sanity but when drenched in sin its even harder to keep one's morality.
If I had to choose I would say sanity has the most controll of the two. Once the sanity is gone morality becomes a wisp of the imagination.

Answer 5

It's much harder to hold on to your morality these days. But the cool thing about this is if your "sane" it's not hard to recover your morality. We have all said and done some things which is immoral and not in the character we try to hold on to. We often beat ourselves up and learn from the mistake in judgment. Almost every single one of us does this at least once a week if we are honest with ourselves and sane. But to loose your sanity is on another level all together. Once you loose your sense of self you will need divine interventions to become one with yourself again. What I have learned is losing either one of these virtues "temporarily" is beneficial to maturing as a person. The best life lesson's are learned hard just as long as we don't go too far in our learning phase. Peace and Luv

Answer 6

I think SANITY. A sane mind will always know what is moral and immoral. If you can hold on to your sanity all the time (through a genuine asking for God's mercy) then you can overcome the taunts and lure of immorality with all its promises of temporal comforts. Holding on to sanity all by yourself is somewhat fragile esp. in times of hardship, trial and depression...so it is wise to seek much greater power for support, and that only comes from 1 TRUE GOD. In the end, you'll find strength and determination to keep up with your sanity.

Answer 7

sanity! Without a doubt. Morality, you either are or you aren't ... if you have a strong sense of moral values, you just don't lose that. But standing up for what is right sometimes will drive you to the edge of sanity and back. :-)

Answer 8

One flows from the other. There are some who will even punish themselves for having "bad" thoughts. Morality can exist without self judgment and self punishment. Sanity, or the loss of sanity comes from spending too much time judging the self.

Answer 9

Sanity is the easiest. True Insanity is the rejection of basic Human Morality. NOW, I am not referring to Religiously based morality, but to the basic Humanist Ideal of respect for every other human being. In short, the Golden rule. Rejection of this basic human right is the foundation and beginning of insanity. Therefore we get sanity by maintaining this simple morality. No religious, racial, ethnic or socio-economic bigotry, but pure human respect of others without reservations.

As John Lennon and Gandhiji said, "Imagine"

Answer 10

I seem to be able to hold on to my sanity easier than my morality. Though I will have to admit that I had an extremely moral family member who had a terrible time maintaining her sanity. I think it is based on which area of your life Satan perceives as your weakest which can be exploited.