Do you think we need to have a fixed moral sense even when we have capacity to change in many other ways?

Answer 1

It's a good question. Have a star.

I think we have the capacity for universal morality because we have a capacity for sympathy and empathy. With those, we can practice the Golden Rule, a rule that is found independently in many societies.

The problem is whence comes our capacity for sympathy and empathy? If they are just feelings that evolved from some circumstances eons ago, then logically we shouldn't pay them much attention. If they are from God, then they form our conscience and we should pay attention.

Answer 2

Yes I do. I believe that as we grow through our childhood that our moral sense is developed and refined, then tested as teenagers. By the time we reach our early twenties, I believe it is fixed and we may change our behaviours and style, but not that core of morality within us.

I believe that some people with disrupted childhoods do not get the opportunity to develop that moral core and so their lives are uncontrollable even by themselves.

Answer 3

A very thought provoking question.

But, it is only our sense of morality which separates us from the animals. So standards of morality involve more than just our adaptation of them, they involve how we treat others.