What guides you in your ethics? Is it your upbringing, your culture, your religion(don’t get this thread shut down by turning it into a religious discussion), or your parents direction that guides you? Did you learn your ethics in school? Do you think everything is relative and don’t believe in ethics? What factors guide you in your morals?
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I think it was the people around me during my upbringing that determined my ethics. Parents, school and friends.
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Hmmmmmm…
Possibly a little bit of all the above, as well as a personal drive to do and be better.
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I read that a guide for something to be good is:
I needs to be good for you and the people around you, now, in the near future and in the far future. This turns out to be a fairly limited set of possibilities, but they are worthwhile.
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I am guided by my upbringing and also my experiences. I have very stonge ethics.
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In my understanding, Its time that guides what is right and wrong. They keep changing as our knowledge and sourrounding changes with time.
Example: Environment pollution is a crime now, but was not 100 years back.
Anyways what ever I say, is not right, but others will decide, majority wins.
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My own moral compass. I like to think im a gentleman - cos i was bought up round them.
Excluding the father of course - i was determined not to be like him.
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That’s a really good question! For me, I always try to minimise harm. Good things cause no harm, to myself or others. Whenever I’m not sure of what to do, I always take the path that causes no/as little harm as possible
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Is that any mean of it for schizophrenics.
I know what pain feels like so I avoid actions that cause others pain. That’s pretty much it, and I should say that should be enough motivation for any human being.
Anything I want to do as long as it doesn’t cause pain and suffering to others is fair game. I am fairly hedonistic when I have the opportunity to be.
Of course we also have to respect the laws, even if we don’t agree with all of them (cough prohibition cough).
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I’m guided by my belief in God and by the criterion of what is beneficial or harmful. To seek to do the deeds which are good i.e. beneficial to self and others and all creation
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My conscience guides me day to day in real time, but I make mistakes… and it works (my conscience) in overdrive during retrospect.
The late Marlon Brando was found saying in one of his black and white movies:
‘Conscience; I hate that stuff.’ I have a false belief that people can see him in my eyeballs.
That’s all a lot to share but I don’t think it will Detail what is an important thread!!
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I have an inner sense of what’s right to do. Sometimes I violate my own rules, either by mistake or by coincidence or low awareness, and feel bad.
When I was young I didn’t have a well developed “ethic compass,” I’m better now at trying not to harm other people even if I don’t like them.
I’m still practising doing good things, it’s easier to avoid doing bad things than force yourself deliberately to do good things.
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My guide is my faith and my upbringing. Although they are two different entities they both work to give me balance in the world that we live in.
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My Mother taught me a lot to begin with. I try to make decisions that are for the greater good.
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My upbringing and my own thoughts on whats good and bad.
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- Morals of Christianity.
- Reading discussions of different viewpoints on things, online. I’m now pro-choice.
- My upbringing.
- Being bisexual opened my eyes to LGBTQ culture and how everyone deserves love.
- My sister-in-law is all tattooed and pierced, but the sweetest lady. I have a different view of “hardcore” looking people, now. Even heavily tattooed people could be the most down to earth people. Don’t judge a book by its cover.
I guess I’ve changed along the way. Hopefully for the better.
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For me it’s the Church.
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I think most people dont need any guide , the scope of their actions will not include anything that is considered too immoral. Some people on the other hand with different pathologies whether impulse control problems, psychosis, psychopathy, anger issues etc do heinous things sometimes that make it seem everyone is capable of great immoral acts. I just dont think so. Social controls like religion and overpolicing etc are just not necessary
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I’ve made a lot of dumb mistakes. But now I judge my decisions on what my nana would think if she found out
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