What is your morality?

We often talk about the moral bankruptcy currently going on in the world in general, but how often have you reflected on your own moral positions?

Do you know the difference between morals and ethics? This is a vital question because much like facts and opinions, they tend to get conflated for each other and they aren't the same.

Morals are those things that help us determine right from wrong. They are often times fluid, changing as new information is received. They are constructed from society, community, religion, self experiences, perceived behaviors of, other influences. Morals help create our values, how we treat other people, and how we generally behave in society.

Ethics are those things that we prescribe to ourselves and others as to how they should act, how they should behave, how they should carry themselves in society. We aquire ethics through our own conscience and intuition, through our religious beliefs, through standards of conduct and social norms.

So, in essence, morals are the nouns, and ethics are the verbs.

Do you know what your own morals are? Can you list them with good assurance you have them? Can you explain them to anyone wh9 asks? Can you validate them?

Do you act off the ethics created by your morals? Can you think of a time you didn't and what happened? Can you think of a time you did and what happened?

How do your morals make you feel? Grateful? Important? Empathetic? Strict? Conflicted?

How do you feel when you act ethically? Proud? Happy? In control? Acceptance?

How do you feel when someone else acts ethically? Happy? Angry? Grateful? Shunned?

We need to visit our morals and ethics often, to make sure we are not living in conflict with our authentic self. So that we can keep ourselves on the path we want to travel, not the path someone else has strung us on that we have no idea where we are going.

As a society, we have lost sense of why we each have morals and ethics and why they are so important to working with each other and uniting to accomplish things better than ourselves.

It's time we got back to our core selves.

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in10RjFox · M

Good subject you have brought up. And all of a sudden you started preaching and asking close-ended question, without worrying how you expect someone to react.

Do you know the difference between morals and ethics?

It appears a very condescending and impolite way of asking anyone for that matter.

As a society, we have lost sense of why we each have morals and ethics and why they are so important to working with each other and uniting to accomplish things better than ourselves.

But the question is, why should each have morals ? When everything is conducted and dictated in life, what is the use of morals and how is anyone allowed to practice? And why is everyone preaching but not practicing ?

So what practicing what one preaches different from preaching what one practices?

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@in10RjFox

It appears a very condescending and impolite way of asking anyone for that matter.

The tone you read was your own. I was not anything writing this other than thinking. I can't help how you read things.

But the question is, why should each have morals ?

Morals are part of our societal frame work. When you commit a crime and are put on trial, while the laws play a part, the morals of the jury plays a large part. The person being tried, their sense of rigjt and wrong plays a huge part. Morals are the foundations of communties. It is in part the agreements we have made to live peacefully.

what is the use of morals and how is anyone allowed to practice? And why is everyone preaching but not practicing ?

I don't know that anyone is preaching them. Even in church, morals is not an often talked about topic. Who is preaching about morals? I am curious.

So what practicing what one preaches different from preaching what one practices?

I think you have gone way out in the weeds here. If you aren't practicing your own morals, how are you existing? Are you just not in control of yourself? Are you just accepting all other moral information without reflection? This line of questioning makes me worry.

in10RjFox · M

@FoxyQueen

If you aren't practicing your own morals, how are you existing? Are you just not in control of yourself? Are you just accepting all other moral information without reflection? This line of questioning makes me worry.

That's exactly what I am making you do .. Worry .. which is self-reflection.

Because you are writing about everything from your own books, which is judgmental. And you are preaching about Moral, and saying that it is part of our societal practice, making me wonder whether this Moral and Morality is the deep state that the world is worrying about. Morals and morality is nothing but a Gas-lighting tool, where when the preacher is interrogated, all they do is switch to slander and verbal assault, and cross their own moral code.

It is in part the agreements we have made to live peacefully.

Where and when, this agreement was made? do you remember signing any agreement that you will follow the morals to live peacefully ?

A Simple example would be driving on the right side and wrong side of a road .. which could be depending on the country, right or left side. So is driving on the right side morality and driving on the wrong side immoral ?

And you can only talk about Crime Murder Court for Morality. Don't you have instances that happen normally in day to day life ?

in10RjFox · M

@in10RjFox

The tone you read was your own. I was not anything writing this other than thinking. I can't help how you read things.

Now you throw the blame on the reader, instead of changing the way you think. And this comes under ethics, for it is unethical and impolite to use "YOU" in the sense you have used.

Do you know the difference between morals and ethics?

Instead you can say "Not many seem to know the difference between morals and ethics"

onrealityofdreams · M

@in10RjFox Whether one says "Not many seem to know the difference between morals and ethics" or asks "Do you know the difference between morals and ethics" either one is valid.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@in10RjFox You just seem to want to be argumentative and not actually have honest discourse. Sorry you were offended by my post. Maybe this isn't the right topic for you.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

I've blocked this person as they seem to be fairly disingenuous however, I'm leaving the discussion for anyone who may find something worthwhile in it.

onrealityofdreams · M

@FoxyQueen That's understandable. He sounded confused on your wording which was odd because there was nothing confusing at all with your wording.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@onrealityofdreams Honestly, i think the post caused him some internal cognitive dissonance. To claim I am preaching morals when there isn't a single moral or ethical belief that I hold, or others hold, in this post, makes me think there was something internal going on that caused discomfort and the easy resolution was to throw it back on me, claiming that I am being unduly negative and judgemental. Because nothing they came back with had anything to do with the actual post and everything to with their reaction to it.

I can't help how my post makes people react. I just can't.

onrealityofdreams · M

@FoxyQueen You're right. You can't control how someone interprets what is said. And when someone takes a few words and misconstrues them again, that is something beyond your control. You said nothing judgmental, either in your post or your responses.