Do you think society plays a role in determining our morals?

Question

I think it does. what about u people??

Answer 1

It plays the major role. We receive from society a whole childhood's worth of training in acceptable versus unacceptable behavior. This results in feelings. We feel good when we do what we've been trained to do and feel bad when we don't.

The problem is that we often realize that we've been trained like animals and we rebel against it. For example, look at the answer just above me. What moral authority does the past generation have to dictate to me in the present?

Moral authority is the real issue. Where did the past generation get the moral values that it is trying to pass on to us?

Answer 2

absolutely. People will usually support what the culture feels is acceptable, such as same-sex marriage, abortion, contraception, etc. Once people see that political leaders and government support an issue, people think it is ethically correct, when sometimes it clearly isn't right, such as for the social issues I've already mentioned. Therefore, we shouldn't assume that government laws and popular culture have morals straightened out. In America, we have the power to dictate the laws, therefore, lets fight to make abortion, contracpetion, gay marriage illegal! God bless

Answer 3

I sure do. It seems that people as a whole adapt and conform to the society in which we live. Sometimes for the good and sometimes for the not so good. Certain things that were not openly tolerated years ago are now common place.

Answer 4

I sure do.