Morals: A Matter of Relativity

I have morals, you have morals, they have morals.In fact every living human being should live their life based upon their own moral code. But do we? Its ethical in the well being of a society that one follows a set of whats widely considered, and accepted as ‘good morals’, after all its from these morals and values that laws are derived from.And law is vital to a functioning society. Its depending on our interpretation based upon our individual experiences in life, where we live, how we live, our background, our faith or lack thereof, the way we were brought up, our perception of normality, our maturity, our age and many other factors, that leads to different ways of thinking amongst people. Its the core of individualism. Thus morality is not universally absolute and most morals are relativistic to life. Morals are more or less laws and expectations, to what we considered normality. Its also the mechanism allowing us to differentiate between what we consider right and wrong.

Despite individualistic differences in morality we still tend to follow the ‘norm’ and live by the widely accepted morals of our society, be it a small village or entire nation. We follow our ethical responsibility in adhering to that moral code, despite our personal moral differentiations. In doing so we abide by the wider societies idea of good morality. We get made to believe that despite our thoughts, feelings and our personal moral code, we are inferior and insignificant to the conventional and widely accepted moral code, the law. This undermines the value of our individualism as a key unit of society. I believe that despite the few universally accepted morals such as the immorality of murder, assault, theft, rape, pedophilia, incest and recklessness, the limitations to collective morals, in my opinion, reach their zenith. All of the other facets of life thereon should be determined by the individual, be it how we relate to people or dress or anything else concerning us and our actions.The fact of the matter is that we still get made to, or expected to conform to the collective moral code of ‘normality’. This occurs despite the reality of unreasonable and outdated collective values which have no relation as to how we feel, what we think, value, uphold and consider ‘moral’ ourselves. If we don’t conform we are frowned upon. Fingers get pointed at us, we become the butt of the joke. This is is the very outdated and over-extended influence of the universally accepted ‘moral code’ model, that I’m talking about. Its a backward mentality of a bygone era. Such societal conformity could only lead to cruelty, persecution, dissent and ridicule of a group of people. It could be based upon race, sexuality, religion, social class, individualism, lifestyle, political affiliation, opinion and personal expression etc.