Whence do YOU derive YOUR moral code?
And whence do I derive my moral code?
It is undeniable that each and one of us who is sane and conscious tries to live by a moral code derived from other than ourselves.
We try to abide by this moral code in our daily lives even when we have not written it done in stone or in the paper.
The human world has as many moral codes as there are humans — as each one of us is unique in our disposition and our situations.
I wonder whether moral codes led to the success of humans as a species or the success of humans as a species necessitated the existence of moral codes.
Even though our sense of morality is deeply ingrained within ourselves, shaping ourselves and our values, it does change with time, circumstances, the adaptation of new beliefs, and the rejection of previously held ones.
Sometimes we might even suspend it in times of intoxication, delirium, or mob mentality — in which case we behave more like animals than rational humans. But once we have regained our rational self, I’m sure our sense of morality comes back to it’s old slow-changing deeply ingrained state.
All of us do have an idea of what is wrong and what is right; we wouldn’t do what we think is wrong given a choice.
