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Humans are Moral Beings
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Definitions:
Morality - principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
Right - morally good, justified, or acceptable.
Wrong - unjust, dishonest, or immoral .
Empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Altruism - the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.
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Humans are Moral Beings
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Does Morality define the person?
Morality defines us only so much. Our morality/morals help to decipher what is right and wrong. The choices we make throughout our lives create our personalities and memories. People around us shape who we are, they influence our thoughts and ideas. As our morals guide us through life, it's what we actually choose that has the biggest impact on us. Sure, morality is a big part of what defines us, but it is not the only part.
Product of Evolution?
The origin of morality has often been pondered. Charles Darwin once stated in his book, The Descent of Man, that morality was simply a byproduct of natural selection and evolution. Others have voiced that morality was conceived by culture, civilization or religious faith. Francisco Ayala, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, proposed a theory combining both the biological and cultural factors that may have led to the human conscience and morality. Ayala sees morality as having the mental capacity for ethics, most likely due to biological evolution, and the ability to strictly follow moral standards set by cultural evolution. Essentially, our minds evolved biologically so we could understand abstract concepts like consequences for our actions and the benefits of cooperation and altruism. This evolution led to humans making laws and building civilizations founded on moral principle.
What shapes our morality?
Our morals are formed from the life we are born into, and the life we have led thus far. In our childhood, by our parents or guardians, we are raised around an environment that can either harm or benefit our way of thinking. Through the media, and the subliminal messages sent to us from the world, we are subconsciously affected everyday.
How we are treated by different types of people influence the way we treat others now. Our morality is also shaped by what interests us and what disinterests us, as well as our own personal faith. Our sense of right and wrong is defined by the world around us, and the way that we see that world.
We all come from different walks of life, and it is the things the we see and the things we do that shape the way we are as humans and as children of God.