Where do get your morals and ethics from?

Risuna23

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I would say life experience is where I got my morality from (or lack of thereof)...
 

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I look at everyone elses morals and copy paste them.
 

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It is an amalgam. To put it simply, I try to think about how things I have experienced and observed in life could potentially apply to future scenarios (or how they could have influenced past events), and how all of this would affect individuals (archetypal) on a micro level and the world overall on a macro level (the latter assuming everyone adopted whatever given moral puzzle piece or completed ideology I am evaluating). From there, I determine what would be the 'best' for everyone and try to abide by it myself :) Of course, a ton of it is situational (which is why I differentiated between the micro and macro levels), and there is no elaborate/complex solution that would work universally, for obvious reasons (but I do believe that there is a very simple one). I definitely think about things pretty idealistically, which anyone who only knows me through here is probably very aware of, but I try to be realistic in practice.

Um, to put it more simply: I am always thinking about how to improve myself :p
 
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from my role models
 

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My morals depend on what I am doing and to whom...
I may smack a chick I saw in the club in the ass, I can't do the same to chick I saw in the road etc.
 

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Our concepts of morality and ethics are not our own, and anyone who tells you otherwise is mistaken. They were handed down through our family, culture, and religion; which over many years has become explicitly intertwined. They adapt to time and learning, and are ever changing. Our concepts of morality and ethics are often rationalized and subjectively modified with our own personal desires.
 

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My feelings, whether it feels good or not. I have a pretty flexible morality.
I wouldn't do bad things but with the right motivation I would.
 

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Originally, my parents and religion. Then, you explore on your own and use morals that is suited for you as you get older and more independent.
 

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I have thought about this too and I came to believe perhaps morals and ethics are acquired through our experiences or in other terms, memories.
Perhaps the memories of the 'consequences' of various actions we have undertaken has developed and stored what we perceive as the right morals to follow deep in our subconscious.
I seem to believe this more when I ask myself: 'if one loses their memories, would they treat people or do things the same way they did before losing them?'
 
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