Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Morality

 I don't like the word morality. It stinks of hierarchy - of superiority and inferiority. To say someone is 'immoral' is an insult, and I'm not one for emotional tactics, as you might discern from my other posts.
 But, see, the extreme emotional attention given to it has affected both its connotation and denotation. Morality seems to have no defined basis - it's an ambiguous word, that seems almost exclusive to the person using it, while it's used as something more objective. This probably stems from the two words used along with it: Good and Bad, who just so happen to suffer from the exact same difficulties.
 More relevantly, perhaps, though, is that morality seems to be concerned only with what one does to others, as opposed to what one does that only affects oneself. Why make the distinction?
  End suffering, wherever it may be. Forget 'morality'.

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