what does morality mean ?
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No fun for you at all.
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Be a shining example of morality.  Don't drink and drive, have (unprotected sex) or drugs.
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Moral values guide your decisions about the most important decisions in life.  Life and Death, War and Peace, Wrath or Compassion.  \n\nIf you generally support war, punishment, agression, violence and killing of those you hate, then you are immoral.  If you lack compassion and your actions promote a lack of compassion then you may be considered immoral.\n\nMorality is also about personal choices you make which affect others, such as lying, cheating, or bearing false witness.\n\nMorality in my view is not about consentual sexuality, dress, language or decisions about drugs or alcohol.  Those are issues of preference and control (self control and control over others.)
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Short answer: My brain.\n\nRight and wrong doesn't really have a source.  There's no spigot you can turn to pour right or wrong out.  It's not a substance.  It's not a form of energy.  Right and wrong are judgments.  Such judgments are formed by the brain.\n\nThat said, people tend to have common morals because of a common human experience.  This includes some genetic selection.  Many of our morals come from instincts that have worked for us as a species.\n\nAnother source of morality is society.  There have been countless societies with various moralities.  As societies have competed, some moralities have proven more effective at allowing people to live amongst each other in relative peace.\n\nThat, btw, is the purpose of morality, to allow people to live close to each other.\n\nWhen it gets down to it, though, the "source" of your morality is your brain.  My morality is influenced by my human genetics, the world I live in, my country, my state, my neighborhood, my culture, my friends, my family.  But ultimately, I decided, for myself, what my place is in society, what I want to do with my life, and how I think I should relate to other people.\n\nI can go on to explain how people with different morals come to common morality and how that translates into laws in society, but this post is already too long.
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I wouldn't say "down the toilet," but I would definitely say as a society, we are less moral than we were 50 years ago.  God is the source of morality.  As more people turn away from God, more people have an empty pit in their souls, which they fill with immorality.
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.\n\nMy Meaning: Live a good honest life and treat everyone with respect, until they do something morally or ethically wrong and no longer deserve your respect.  If they say they are sorry, and they REALLY are, and they do what they can to fix/repair/make amends, then forgive them, and give them respect...again.  Then Repeat.
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Well...  What religion does is make morality an objective idea instead of a subjective one; people obey the tenets that a certain religion sets forth.  Morality without religion is subjective; it is every individual's own perception of right and wrong -- which often differs.  Very similar is the difference between Christianity and humanism; one sets God as the absolute of all reality, and the other sets humankind as the absolute of all reality.  \nSo, do people need "god" to be morally "responsible" to their own concept of morality?  No.  Whether their idea of morality is correct, on the other hand -- take Hitler's morality for instance; he may very well have been responsible to his idea of morality -- is a totally different question.
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Yes, especailly if morality is a human construct and thus subjective. In that case it's quite obvious that the emotions generated by cognition drive morality in humans.\n\nAs for an Objective Morality, take a look at this:\n\nDesire Utilitarianism:\n\nhttp://www.infidelguy.com/members/AlonzoFyfe/article_du.shtml\n\nPS: And If your REALLY interested in this moral system, Alonzo offers an entire online book on it.\n\nIf I recall correctly, he made his Doctorate Thesis on Desire Utilitarianism.\n\nhttp://www.infidelguy.com/members/AlonzoFyfe/desire_utilitarianism.shtml
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One definition is, "strong moral character or strength, and adherence to ethical principles." How it applies to anyone is a personal issue, some of us have it, some don't. Bureaucrats are no exception.
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Moral Things are the most cherished, collectible, costly, dear, expensive, incalculable, incomparable, inestimable, invaluable, irreplaceable, prized, rare, rich, treasured, valuable, valued Things.........\n\nOfcourse Moral Values are Precious than money.......\n\nIf one loses money today you can get more than thet tomorrow..........\n\nbut if you lose your moral values then no one in this world will even care about you........\n\npurithatha
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Morality and ethics are not something handed down from On High-- although some pretend it is-- morality and ethics are socially produced.  Basically, social morlaity is that which enhanches the survival of Each and All.  No reference to supernatural decrees is necessary.
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Values are the things you hold dear. Literally, the things you value. Some people can have bad values. THat is, they value things that are worthless or meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Values are a relative thing, unlike morals.
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I would say that ethics are governed by those around you. In other words a general consensus is arrived at by the cumulative agreement of many...whereas morality is decided within the hearts of each of us...we alone decide what is and isn't morally right. Others may have an opinion but ultimately the final decision on morality is our own..~
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Being a n atheist does not mean we have no Morals .+\nAnswer:  About the same as  or a little less than Religious men.
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Morality is usually concerned with personal issue whereas ethics is concerned when issue takes into account another person.
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In addition to the idea that there are universal morals (such as killing and stealing), just because morality is relative doesn't mean it doesn't exist.\n\nAttitudes towards sex are a great example of moral relativity.  Even in our own country we've become very accepting of pre-marital sex. This doesn't mean we still don't have a set of morals about sex, it just means they've changed over time.  Morality shifts, but still exists.
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Religion often makes us feel guilty about the most common human experiences, usually related to sex. This clearly contradicts nature. Sex is sex. If you're of the legal age, with another consenting adult, and aware of the risks/protection, then knock yourself out. This really has nothing to do with morals, mostly just religion.