Morality on an island
Well, I haven't had many viewers and, hence, no comments. Anyways, the purpose of this blog is me. So here's where I contradict some of the things mentioned in my previous post...
I've effectively said in the previous posts that morality or ethics are for social interactions, and that living alone on an island needs no concept of right and wrong.
Error. It's alone on an island that one would need morality the most. Why, you say? Because right and wrong make the difference between life and death. It's now totally up to you to find your own means for survival. To avoid that which spells death. And this cannot be done without your own system of gauging what promotes existence. So the pro-existence, anti-existence holds here as definition of right and wrong. Except, we are still talking of the existence of human life. That is, you would kill animals if they threatened to prey on you, or if you had to prey on them. Yet, if you're not careful in either, that is, if you're not the "fittest", you won't survive.
But morality has to be chosen. Man has volition. He can choose whether to live or die. Therefore, he can choose whether he follows a code of existence or a code of destruction. And this holds relevance even for a man alone on an island.
I've effectively said in the previous posts that morality or ethics are for social interactions, and that living alone on an island needs no concept of right and wrong.
Error. It's alone on an island that one would need morality the most. Why, you say? Because right and wrong make the difference between life and death. It's now totally up to you to find your own means for survival. To avoid that which spells death. And this cannot be done without your own system of gauging what promotes existence. So the pro-existence, anti-existence holds here as definition of right and wrong. Except, we are still talking of the existence of human life. That is, you would kill animals if they threatened to prey on you, or if you had to prey on them. Yet, if you're not careful in either, that is, if you're not the "fittest", you won't survive.
But morality has to be chosen. Man has volition. He can choose whether to live or die. Therefore, he can choose whether he follows a code of existence or a code of destruction. And this holds relevance even for a man alone on an island.
posted by Avan at 9:34 PM
3 Comments:
To think about his survival, and try his best to succeed in doing so is the most important thing for a man. On an island, or anywhere.
Even in a place here- crowded street.
Alone or not.
He has choices everywhere
Morality is a process that goes through his mind
all the time
Its upto him to prevail or submit. There is a hero in every one of us.
We just have to think.
Agreed. I think it's finally a question of whether we curb our ability to think. Coz without thought, we don't know where we are going, and what we're choosing.
See if thoughts stops life stops
There would have not been any invention or discovery without thought.
Ethics and morality is again thought process.
A person alone on island or a person in a crowd definitely have different though processes to survive.
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