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.
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.
