Daily Prompt: Is My Morality Just Like Yours?

June 24, 2013 by TammyeHoney 11 Comments

Daily Prompt: Morality Play

by michelle w. on June 24, 2013

Where do your morals come from — your family?
Your faith?
Your philosophical worldview?
How do you deal with those who don’t share them, or derive them from a different source?

Photographers, artists, poets: show us THE SOURCE.

Let’s start first with the definition from wikipedia on the source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality

Morality (from the Latin moralitas “manner, character, proper behavior”) is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are “good” (or right) and those that are “bad” (or wrong). The philosophy of morality is ethics. A moral code is a system of morality (according to a particular philosophy, religion, culture, etc.) and a moral is any one practice or teaching within a moral code. Morality may also be specifically synonymous with “goodness” or “rightness.” Immorality is the active opposition to morality (i.e. opposition to that which is good or right), while amorality is variously defined as an unawareness of, indifference toward, or disbelief in any set of moral standards or principles.^[1][2][3][4] An example of a moral code is the Golden Rule which states that, “One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.”^[5]

Now Webster says about the same thing:

mo·ral·i·ty

 noun \mə-ˈra-lə-tē, mȯ-\

plural mo·ral·i·ties

Definition of MORALITY

1

a : a moral discourse, statement, or lesson

b : a literary or other imaginative work teaching a moral lesson

2

a : a doctrine or system of moral conduct

b plural : particular moral principles or rules of conduct

3

: conformity to ideals of right human conduct

4

: moral conduct : virtue

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First Known Use of MORALITY

14th century

Related to MORALITY

Synonyms

character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, probity,rectitude, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue,virtuousness

Antonyms

badness, evil, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, sin, villainy,wickedness

Related Words

high-mindedness, honor, incorruptibility, irreproachability,irreproachableness, right-mindedness, scrupulosity,scrupulousness; appropriateness, correctness,decorousness, decorum, etiquette, fitness, propriety,seemliness; ethics, morals

Near Antonyms

impropriety, indecency, indecorum, indiscretion;debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, depravity,perversion, pervertedness, sinfulness; crookedness,dishonesty, underhandedness, unscrupulousness; lowness,meanness, viciousness, vileness; corruption

Since it has been around since the 14th Century, I would be safe in saying that it was not my family who started the code of ethics that the general world lives by today.  I do believe in treating people with respect.  I do hope that people treate me with respect in return.

I have no intentions in doing harm to others or robbing anyone or being villainous toward anyone in my future.  I do not pass judgement on others as it is not my place here on this planet to do so.  I live in my own glass house and must wash my own windows on a regular basis.  I do not have time in my life to see what others are doing or if the windows in their homes are clean enough…there is plenty to do in my own home before I go looking elsewhere.

The day that my home is spotless and clean of all is the day that I died and it went up on the market for sale…(hubby must have passed on before me or it still is not)…

Until then…still scrubbing at home,

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Life would not be interesting if we all thought and spoke the same:

Watch the videos if you want to become a Stepford wife:

Otherwise just try to be a good human and treat people nice today…

Tammye Honey