Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me?(Wallace,2005). This is what enforcement of moral values cause people to do, pretend to be good instead of changing their selves. I think force never solves the problems instead suppress them, sometimes it is helpful but mostly they emerge with greater strength. When it comes to morality this is something we cannot enforce, because there are some values which looks like immoral to you but it might not be in others views. Even if there are some common values, which are considered, immoral in all societies but still force is no solution because moral values cannot be taught anyway, only way we adopt a moral value is from inside of man by seeing other people observing it in surrounding. This happens by persons own will, just like a habit, that we do not choose a habit, it just becomes a part of ourselves unknowingly. To me, enforcing a moral value on somebody is like extracting it spirit from it, and it will lose its originality leaving an empty shell, which people will put over to pretend to observe that moral value which you enforced on them. In my opinion, this is a natural reaction because man has rebellious nature, which we cannot change. The only way one can learn moral values, is by living in a society observing those values. This is the natural way of change. However, enforcing it can drive the people away and they will react in a negative way.
Why not to enforce? This questions is legible because if, moral values are observed; in a society, It means that I’ll be living in an ideal society where everyone would like to live. This is a very good argument i...
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...lly creating a morally rich society. This can’t be achieved by forcing people.
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A positive effect of these standards is having to pressure to do the “correct” moral action when presented in a situation. In the basic example of seeing someone drop a wallet with hundreds of dollars in it, the question of what to do with it stands. In the worst-case scenario, if no one is in sight, the person grabs the wallet and takes it without regards to the responsibility or consequences for the person that lost the money. Although, switching the scenario into a crowd around the person. The same person will look around and double check for their surroundings. Seeing that there are civilians judging at his next action, he will pick up the wallet and go after the person that accidently dropped it. Why? Well because in his mind he knows that if he does the wrong action in front of others, he will be arbitrated as a wrong character in the society he lives. In the long run, it is beneficial, although in this case scenario this fellow was just manipulated by the social order to go against his bad intentions in an example of how pressure from what other’s think influence your
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