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By Hugh Akston
Morals Vs Situational Ethics.
What are Morals? Morals are the rules that we allow to govern our actions within our perception of right and wrong. They define proper and correct action.
Ethics are the way we apply our moral standards, they are the actions we take when no one is looking.
Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
morals
MOR'ALS, n. plu. The practice of the duties of life; as a man of correct morals.
1. Conduct; behavior; course of life, in regard to good and evil.
Some, as corrupt in their morals as vice could make them, have been solicitous to have their children virtuously and piously educated.
What can laws do without morals?
ethics
ETH'ICS, n. The doctrines of morality or social manners; the science of moral philosophy, which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it.
1. A system of moral principles; a system of rules for regulating the actions and manners of men in society.
Situational Ethics are the rules we choose to follow to justify our actions; in other words our actions define the rules. Now nothing is truly right or wrong but dependent upon how we view a problem, we can now always be the “Good Guy”. What we do is right because that is what we did; and we can always justify any action.
Many people tell us the world is not Black and white; it is many shades of gray… this is only true if you are walking in the darkness. When we walk in daylight everything is sharp and clear, well defined and colorful. But when we go about at night, things become indistinct and lose their color; shades of gray appear the farther we get away from the light, until all is just black.
Morals are the light that guides us; Thou shall not steal, applies to robbing Stores as much as it does to taking the pen at the Bank counter. It applies to taking that “Free sample” of fruit at the store; after all they will not miss just one…
So where do we get Moral rules from? If they come from inside us, then they are as changeable as we are; so they must come from outside of us. The Constitution is one set of Laws or rules that should guide us and our country, but they are not original, they were based on such documents as the Magna Charta, and the Code of Hammurabi. Then again these documents are works of man and as such come from within man, therefore they are changeable just as man is.
In the declaration of independence it refers to “God Given rights”:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This now points to a set of rules outside of man, God Given rules of conduct, as God is unchangeable so are the rules that God gives. Man is now faced with a choice, follow the rules or break them, but there is no justification for breaking the rules; Right and wrong are now absolutes.
This is the reason that many turn from God, they want to do evil and walk in darkness, and they do not love the Light of this world that shines on their deeds. The Light that shows their evil for what it is.
If you see the world in many shades of gray what are your morals? How do you define right and wrong? Do you love the Light of the World?
John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
God Bless.
Just my thoughts for today.
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