Jul 28 2008
Morality and Ethics
I am not an expert in the field of Morality and Ethics by any means, I hope others will add their point of view so please comment!
Doing good is a hard task. Are we made to do good by conscious minds or by some form of embedded morality. Maybe we get this from somewhere else, God for instance or meditation?
Are we born with morality? I think not. We are born with principles that focus on our survival. Our very nature requires us to survive first and then think about others as this is overall considering everyone the most effective strategy for humanity’s survival.
Putting our gas masks on first and then helping others means those who can help survive to help the people who wouldn’t.
Ethics are what really guides us on our search for morality. But can ethics really be taught? Is there even an answer for the questions of morality? The deeper we go into ethics the more complex and impossible the waves of time become.
We can’t predict the weather for more than 5 or so days at a time as the computing power to calculate it increases exponentially. This is because of chaos theory which is the underpinnings of quantum and most physical calculations in space-time.
In the same manner the ripples of our actions are so continuously affective that we never learn the true outcome of our actions. Even if I flipped a coin a hundred times there is no way to prove that the next time I do it I’ll get either a head or a tail unless we had all the information in the universe to work with.
All we can say is that over an extremely large number of coin flips the likelihood of getting a tail or a head tends to a number. (Which if using one coin will not be exactly 50:50 due to imperfections in the coin and the way you flip, the surface it lands on etc…).
So then all we can really do is work out assumptions through rigorous trials which model the real world’s causality. But who should do this? And why? Around the world the many different people choose different sets of rules to which to define morality and their ethics. No one person is right and no one belief is right. All that matters is overall we get it right.