Ethics

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Morals within one culture can be a complicated subject. Even within our own country elections can be decided based on whose morals agree with who instead of what is truly best for the country and its people. Considering how complicated just one culture can be. Now imagine comparing and contrasting the thousands of different cultures out there today and the millions of morals that exist in those cultures. It is humanly impossible to judge between these morals and cultures which one living life what some might call the “right way”. We all come from some background and all of us are biased whether it is apparent to us or not. So though my English teacher in high school, who was a pronounced lesbian, taught us about cultures in Africa that cut out the sexual stimulating part of the female body and to show us how there still exists “evil people in the world today”. It’s pretty clear she was biased towards females and I don’t believe she had the right to judge that culture negatively. At the time my classmates and I were astonished and couldn’t believe this existed. However none of us actually took the time to look into the culture and learn more about why they do what they do. We judged knowing very little and I blame my English teacher for trying to almost recruit people to her own morals. Now that I’m older and as I read the two pieces on morals I kept thinking about that story and also how much violence and destruction in the world could have been prevented if people didn’t try to physically enforce their morals on others. Unfortunately when morals become sacred and religious to one they feel the need to correct others who aren’t aware of the “right way” to live. A lot of the problems we see in today’s world stem from people over stepping their bounds and putting their morals on others. I don’t know if I would consider opening a McDonalds in the middle of Islam enforcing morals on others though it may be offens...