Morality

             Discuss to what extent you feel human beings have an obligation to be moral in their dealings and relationships with nature (excluding human beings) and for what reasons? Give specific examples of such dealings and relationships and argue your position fully.
             From childhood and throughout a lifetime, we are told what we can and cannot do. But why can we not do some things? Often times, the answer is, "Because it's wrong." But what is wrong? How does one determine the difference between right and wrong? What it usually comes down to is what morals are directing the decision. Whether it is what an individual thinks to be right or wrong, or what a groups of lawmakers thinks it to be, generally all of our decisions on what is or is not permissible comes from someone's interpretations of morality. But what are morals? The dictionary gives many definitions. "Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character; conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous." In short, morals are simply how one interprets the differences between right and wrong.
             When you decide to help a struggling person in the hall, that is based on your morals. When you decide to turn down a beer because you believe that drinking is wrong, that is morals. When you vote to keep abortion legal, that is morals. Whether thought of or done subconsciously, morals are the basis on how you make many decisions. From where does this sense of right or wrong originate from? Freud says that moral development comes from observation of parents during the developmental stage of childhood. From childhood, then, comes the foundation for adulthood morality. There are many different ways of developing morality. Sometimes someone will make an idol or an example out of another person, living or dead. Many people try hard to dedicate their lives to being like certain historical figures such as Jesus of Naza...

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