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What is morality? What is your own personal basis for your sense of morality?
For instance, if I am a Christian, I am commanded to love and serve all without exception. But I accept arbitrary international boundaries between countries that define how people are treated. So some of my basis for morality may not be from my faith.
I imagine folks of other faiths and those who claim no faith at all suffer from similar inconsistencies.
Similar issues arise about health, poverty, war and peace, and many more.
Yes, I know it is kind of deep and perhaps obtuse. But give it a whirl.
Three provocative quotes from random parts of the literary universe:
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We have two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach."---Bertrand Russell
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."---Ernest Hemingway
I guess I get my ideas about morality from a combination of my religious beliefs, social norms, and my upbringing (which is almost the same as religious beliefs in my case). But I think there is an innate sense of morality that is in us all. Whether we follow that inner morality is our decision.
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