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Moral standard is a tool to control human behavior
Since young, we are taught to tell the truth, behave well, and show kindness. Most people think moral standard is the right path to follow and seldom question it. Truly speaking, there’s no such thing as objective moral standard. Moral code is man made. A moral value in a culture might be frown upon in another culture and vice versa. Some moral nihilists and moral sceptics openly question the existence of objective morality.
In my opinion, moral standard is created to keep society functioning in an optimum way. It’s like a microchip implant in people’s head to make them behave in certain way that’s productive and not harmful to the social economical system of a society. Societies need moral code to prevent people from robbing the bank, killing people around, and wracking all kinds of havoc (ironically, sometimes it tolerates racism. Ha ha harr….).
I think certain moral values should be embraced because it makes us better human beings. But I’ll always remain sceptical with the whole holy moral high ground thing. Sometimes moral standard is a tool used by certain parties to achieve their agenda. Do you notice that some nations used the man made “human rights” to bash countries they don’t like and they themselves don’t walk the talk?
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hah, that’s why I disliked the Moral subject back in high school.
getting A for Moral doesn’t mean that your moral standard is high. freakish education.
Hello Relax, very wise observations, I’d say. Social morals are for people who are not aware of who they are. It’s like telling a tree to be a tree. When we know we are Love and we are One, we don’t need any promptings or rules. We just naturally love and cherish and value each other.
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Moral is important..
but i guess there are many who goes against it.. =)
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You are contradicting yourself: “I think certain moral values should be embraced because it makes us better human beings.” If there were no objective standard then “better” and “should” are terms without meaning. This is exceedingly common among moral relativist like yourself.
Morality in itself stands for goodness, we need not search morality in behaviour patters of the people rather look in the image of ourself to be an instance for tohers.Morality comes with inputing values and values.