Name: Anonymous 2006-08-07 14:48
I believe I have a solid grasp of what's right and wrong, and feel bad about wrong actions enough to avoid them. I blame this on parents who remain happily married, and sunday school when I was a kid. This brings a real sense of naivety as I expect others to feel the same way about their actions. To feel guilt or "sin." But no, most people commit wrongful actions without remorse, or at least suppressing any remorse. Actions are justified or rationalized, defended, or unquestioned. For all its flaws, at least Christianity gave me a solid concept of what's acceptable and what's not. I don't mean feeling morally superior, I mean being an all around decent person.
Yet there are always people who don't care about how they act. Is it how they were raised, the environment they grew up in, or their lack of a supernatural boogeyman watching them all the time?
What if instead of churches there were moral-philosophical centers, that would discuss varying degrees of acceptability for different actions. Some of it would seem to common sense, but even the common sense doesn't seem to be emphasized anymore.
I mean basic awareness of harmful actions such as theft, rape, child abuse, property destruction, murder, etc.
Yet there are always people who don't care about how they act. Is it how they were raised, the environment they grew up in, or their lack of a supernatural boogeyman watching them all the time?
What if instead of churches there were moral-philosophical centers, that would discuss varying degrees of acceptability for different actions. Some of it would seem to common sense, but even the common sense doesn't seem to be emphasized anymore.
I mean basic awareness of harmful actions such as theft, rape, child abuse, property destruction, murder, etc.