Is One Person’s Morale Opinion Just as Good as Another’s

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Is one person’s morale opinion just as good as another’s? Moral opinions boil the world down to black and white rules to live everyday and every situation by. These opinions are developed in a person’s mind based on their beliefs and life experiences. The world we live in affords many different experiences to many different cultures, which has lead to many different moral opinions. Many of them are in direct conflict. Is one of these better than another? Are they all just as valuable? Yes. Each moral opinion is just as good as the next because they are all based on ideas and not facts, there for they are all equally open to debate. In order for something to be “better,” there must be incontestable evidence to support that title. There has yet to be any moral opinion presented that has not had counter points raised against it. The bulk of our morals come to us through those who teach us to be members of our society. These morals are general guidelines which the majority of those living in our society have agreed to live by. I have used the terms “bulk,” “general,” “guidelines,” and “majority” for good reason. Morality likes to deal with absolutes; “Killing another person is wrong!” “Do not take that which does not belong to you!” “Protect and care for the young!” Yet there are countless exemptions to these rules. One can kill in self defense or when fighting in a war. The Spartans killed deformed babies by throwing them off a cliff. This is a practice still alive today in Ghana, where "the common belief among some communities in the north that children born with deformities are "spirit children" and considered too evil or a taboo to be sheltered and catered for." The example of infanticide strikes many of us with horror and offends our moral code. We are educated and informed about what causes the deformities in babies. We have the medical and

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