This weekend while shopping at Express at the local mall, I left my phone in the dressing room. I left the store, walked about 3 minutes away and realized it wasn't in my purse. I RAN (yes RAN) back to see if it was there. To my dismay, it wasn't in the dressing room, the front desk or the lost and found. Someone stole my phone. Even now looking back I don't understand why... why would you take something that belongs to someone else, that has personal information, and pictures they'll never see again or get back just for no reason? It wasn't a fancy phone, just a plain samsung.... the only special thing about it was the grey zebra cover that it had. Wouldn't the right thing to do be to turn in the phone or contact the numbers on there like "Home," "Mom," "Dad" and get the phone back to me? They would have gotten a reward... but instead they focused on getting immediate benefits and in this case, the only negative would be a guilty conscience (if that). Then who is to say that the person acted wrongly? Where does our intrinsic value of right and wrong come from? Perhaps the person was acting in their version of morality.
But still something is lacking. For example, every major culture views murder as wrong, and we view murderers as sick individuals. If morality is subjective, isn't this person acting within their moral rights? If its relative, who's to say the murdered deserved the right to live? Where does this absolute morality come from? Why should a lover be hurt if his beloved cheated on him? She was acting in her sense of morality correct? So why do we feel hurt and pain when we've been wronged? Or when we witness something horrible happening? Is morality something we should hide under?
No my friends, morality is something that we should use to take action. It is because we have morality that life goes on in a normal manner. We shouldn't be complacent that everything is going well, we should be active to fix the wrongs in the world. Don't use religion of any kind to sit back knowing you "have it made" but use it to care for those who don't.
Next.... If Morality exists, where does it come from?
Now: How do you feel about morality? Is it necessary or a necessary evil? or just evil?
Think away!
They know that it is wrong, and their worldview if it considers it okay, contradicts their own as they wouldn't be happy if it happened to them. The world is depraved, and some become even more hardened in their depravity, and more and more away from God and a sense of right and wrong. They are their own God, they set themselves upon the throne and assail the heavens (or so they think).
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