lunes, 6 de junio de 2011

source of morality

Morality is something that has been taught to us ever since we were little by society and politics. Society is an immediate source of knowledge since our parents are the ones who raise us and they have been included into society by being moral human beings. They have been taught what to do and what not to do according to morality. When we are young the method of teaching is by experience, kids explore many things such as fighting with other kids or pranking them and we are told by teachers and parents that such things are inmoral and should not be done, also by grounding if something immoral has been done.
Little by little school introduces other moral issues such as violence and war being an immoral thing to do but under the necessary circumstances they are permited. In addition politics is what runs society and their social perspective is what shapes what is or not moral. Communism will have different moral values to nationalism. Politics have differences in ideology and therefore in morality, and this morality that has to do with political beliefs changes with time. For example before being a communist was immoral, the people who were communists were said to eat people and be horrible people, finally people today who are communists are far more respected. So both society and politics are the main source of morality because they are taught to us when we were little and it shapes our moral standards by educating us and being what controls society.

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