Morals are the anticipated ideals people are expected to follow. In the hypothetical world of a University campus, I am often faced with the confusions, I won't use the world dilemma....It is something more like a musing of sorts, on what is it that people follow? What is it that people think of as morals?
A National College is one of the most diverse cultures one can enter into. People come from all around the nation, from different economic-social backgrounds. And most importantly with very different aspects of morality. One of the best things about being in a College like this is that one can debate about almost anything. I know a guy who discusses about which is better, Mumbai or "The rest of India"? And two guys who keep discussing if Bangalore is a better town or Lucknow. Well, these are the easy ones... And it was I who discussed about Morality.
Well, let me make myself clear that I'm not on a moral high ground or anything of the sort. I am someone who considers morality as the right to do. I am often taken away by passions and desires which might not be so moral even according to my own standards. But that is how it is.
Group type : Have never consumed alcohol in their life or any other type of intoxicant. None of them has a girlfriend or has ever been in a relationship. None of them smoke. Hands down, these are the cleanest guys in my batch.
The most obvious thing is that they consider PDA as highly immoral. Now, the reasons for that were quite far fetched as well. They rationalized it on the basis that if some people practice PDA, then a larger population in a later period of time is gonna practice. And what is the problem if more people practice it? They think more people will feel uncomfortable because of this. Some of them even said that it is immoral because it is illegal. (I have no idea if that is really the fact. Any one of you is most welcome to elaborate on this.) They also based legality of an aspect as the one of morality.
The interesting thing about these guys is that they consider alcohol immoral only if people fight and create ruckus after drinking, else it is moral. The matter of fact is that they really don't care about the alcohol part, they just consider the losing control part as the one that is problematic. Thus anyone who drinks and stays in his room and doesn't do anything 'out of the line', it is moral. All in all they don't have any problem with any kind of intoxicants as long as the person is not creating any problems for the other person.
Thus the health problems which alcohol and intoxicants can create is morally superior than the discomfort created by PDA.
(Morality is a subjective thing, it has its various aspects and every person has a different view on this. Do you have a different view? Type away in the space under this. )
A National College is one of the most diverse cultures one can enter into. People come from all around the nation, from different economic-social backgrounds. And most importantly with very different aspects of morality. One of the best things about being in a College like this is that one can debate about almost anything. I know a guy who discusses about which is better, Mumbai or "The rest of India"? And two guys who keep discussing if Bangalore is a better town or Lucknow. Well, these are the easy ones... And it was I who discussed about Morality.
Well, let me make myself clear that I'm not on a moral high ground or anything of the sort. I am someone who considers morality as the right to do. I am often taken away by passions and desires which might not be so moral even according to my own standards. But that is how it is.
Group type : Have never consumed alcohol in their life or any other type of intoxicant. None of them has a girlfriend or has ever been in a relationship. None of them smoke. Hands down, these are the cleanest guys in my batch.
The most obvious thing is that they consider PDA as highly immoral. Now, the reasons for that were quite far fetched as well. They rationalized it on the basis that if some people practice PDA, then a larger population in a later period of time is gonna practice. And what is the problem if more people practice it? They think more people will feel uncomfortable because of this. Some of them even said that it is immoral because it is illegal. (I have no idea if that is really the fact. Any one of you is most welcome to elaborate on this.) They also based legality of an aspect as the one of morality.
The interesting thing about these guys is that they consider alcohol immoral only if people fight and create ruckus after drinking, else it is moral. The matter of fact is that they really don't care about the alcohol part, they just consider the losing control part as the one that is problematic. Thus anyone who drinks and stays in his room and doesn't do anything 'out of the line', it is moral. All in all they don't have any problem with any kind of intoxicants as long as the person is not creating any problems for the other person.
Thus the health problems which alcohol and intoxicants can create is morally superior than the discomfort created by PDA.
(Morality is a subjective thing, it has its various aspects and every person has a different view on this. Do you have a different view? Type away in the space under this. )
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hey..hi..
you are ryt...morality is very disputed topic...and presently this word has lost its significance in our society.Most of the people look morality in local and contemporary terms.They do not go beyond that.As in case of khap panchayats only...for them if a girl is wearing jeans then she is immoral.In most of our families if we answer back to our elders then we will be tag marked as immoral.So in our society morality is like this only...dont do this..dont do that...thatz right..thatz wrong..etc..etc..etc..
what i think...morality is defined by universal values.If anyone violates these UVs then he/she is doing an immoral act.So if anyone is drinking alcohol..no problem...its his or her choice..there is nothing moral or immroral in that but if after drinking one goes out of line(as u said) then definitely thatz immoral.So for me universal values are morality....
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