Often, discussions about morality seem to be centered around our actions, as opposed to thoughts or feelings. When can we say that thoughts or feelings are immoral?
I am interested in hearing what you think. I welcome and encourage responders from all philosophies and religions.
The best answer will be awarded to the most thoughtful and well-explained response. (My selection of best answer will have nothing to do with my personal beliefs about this question.)
2007-08-21 00:54:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No thought that comes into your head can be wrong, but it can be wrong to dwell on certain thoughts and feelings, letting them take you over. Brooding on revenge, nursing hurts, encouraging hatred in yourself, can all be wrong.
This is partly because thought and feeling are the roots of actions, and the more you cherish ill feelings, the more likely you are to do wrong actions.
And it's partly because you have a certain responsibility not to turn your mind into a sewer.
2007-08-21 01:20:56 · answer #1 · answered by bonitakale 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Immorality is in the eye of the beholder. It is such a flexible word. It changes from person to person and country to country, but I think that thoughts and feelings are immoral, when they go against your own core fibre. If you have thoughts and feelings, which to you feel unnatural, then and only then can they be considered truely immoral.
What is good about this opinion, is that if there is something that IS universally immoral, then all people will feel personally that it is wrong. This is of course excepting people who have no sense of morality or right and wrong.
Now we have an even harder question, how do we decide who does not have the ability to make judgements on morality?
2007-08-21 01:07:21 · answer #2 · answered by miss_cris101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a bit subjective, as what may seem wrong to me, you might have no qualms at all about.
For me, if I have any query or doubt, the very process of questioning creates the possibility that those thoughts or feelings are suspect in the first place. And if they are, then I would not want others to know about them, and there would be a perceived sense of shame that keeps them private, undisclosed.
2007-08-21 01:14:13 · answer #3 · answered by bluebell 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When there is a sort of guilt in our hearts that we are hurting ourselves and others the thought or action is immoral .When we listen to our inner soul which is always pure we cannot do anything immoral.
2007-08-21 03:01:38 · answer #4 · answered by shivamat bhairav 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My personal thoughts are that a person cannot help where his/her mind goes. Do we consider authors and filmmakers "immoral" for thinking up plots and storylines? It is acting upon or obsessing over certain thoughts that makes them immoral.
The thoughts themselves become immoral when they involve judgement passed on another based on issues such as sexual orientation, race or other such lack tolerance.
2007-08-21 01:17:49 · answer #5 · answered by Kate v.7.0 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of strategies or emotions are ethical or immoral in the comparable way that movements are. Any theory or feeling is immoral if the corresponding action could be deemed immoral. Christ tells us that thinking approximately adultery is as undesirable as beautiful in adultery, working example. strategies and emotions can grow to be obsessions or uncontrollable and get a individual into difficulty. look at Hitler's strategies approximately Jewish human beings. look at Jeffrey Dahmer's strategies approximately cannibalism. look at Osama Bin encumbered's strategies approximately God. luckily for us, no human can examine our strategies. Unfortuantely for us, God is conscious us by ability of our strategies and what's in our hearts.
2016-10-16 08:03:29 · answer #6 · answered by giardina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a simple mathmatical equation...so as a man thinks he does ie; thought becomes actions and actions are what make up are days! So if you think you are doing
something immoral then as you think you do this is interesting , denial is a pleasure afforded those who
think thier thoughts are not real!
2007-08-21 01:11:31 · answer #7 · answered by swetistdream 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interesting... what would immoral feelings be, actually? feelings& thoughts are only in our head, therefore unable to hurt anybody...i'd have to say that, if they don't affect our actions in any way, thoughts or feelings can't be immoral. feelings usually can't be helped and come on their own accord, but even if those feelings are particularly nasty (eg. paedophilic), they can't be considered immoral if we keep them under complete control and don't discomfort anybody.
2007-08-21 01:09:23 · answer #8 · answered by Sylvia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thoughts and feelings become immoral when we become the slave to our ego.
2007-08-21 01:06:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋