"Le probleme avec la morale c'est que c'est toujours celle des autres."
"The problem with morality is that it is always someone else's"
(Leo Ferre)

Sounds wise but, is it?

We are raised within a society that gives us a set of parameters. This influences all our lives without question. The dilemma resides on how we accept it, modify it or reject it.

We always react to someone else's morale, but we do make our own. In that we are 'free' to the extent that we make our own decisions to accept or refuse that morality. Still, considering that we are influenced anyway, where is our true freedom?

I have no answer to questions like this. I just keep turning them in my head to understand better and possibly offer an answer.

I have none. (It was true in 2010, it is still true 11 years later)

"Le probleme avec la morale c'est que c'est toujours celle des autres."
"The problem with morality is that it is always someone else's"
(Leo Ferre)

Sounds wise but, is it?

We are raised within a society that gives us a set of parameters. This influences all our lives without question. The dilemma resides on how we accept it, modify it or reject it.

We always react to someone else's morale, but we do make our own. In that we are 'free' to the extent that we make our own decisions to accept or refuse that morality. Still, considering that we are influenced anyway, where is our true freedom?

I have no answer to questions like this. I just keep turning them in my head to understand better and possibly offer an answer.

I have none. (It was true in 2010, it is still true 11 years later)

"We always react to someone else's morale, but we do make our own. In that we are 'free' to the extent that we make our own decisions to accept or refuse that morality. Still, considering that we are influenced anyway, where is our true freedom?"

Morality is a human construct intended to facilitate a functional culture or society. Some parts of our cultural morality may not produce comfort with the innate character of different people. For close to 2,000 years the morality of our culture was strongly predicated on Christianity. That of course has changed, and people consider much moral they would have seen as immoral 150 years ago. If you're looking for a way to act, i.e. express your own sense of what is moral, without some type of external influence, you will not find it. In other words, freedom in a vacuum does not exist. If you violate some part of your cultural morality because it does not resonate with you, it will not be a free choice, because whatever it is will still have been influenced by thinking that was affected by something you read, experienced, or heard. Free will is an illusion, as difficult as this is to accept. 

Lol. Ok understood. Lol. As always there is an exception to every rule or advice. Now we have the root of the problem. Exceptions. How far do we go with them? Do we infringe the rights of many for the rights of a few? If so what is the number where it is not worth the exception? If 2 people are allergic to steak do we ban steak? This is were it turns into a MAJOR MESS. As evidenced by today's society even so far as medication. Example Quinine Sulfate. Removed from the shelves because a portion of the population had I'll effects. My wife needed it terribly for her medical condition. Worked very well and was inexpensive. Now due to the exception of a portion of the population her rights have been infringed. Now she must see a Dr every 30 days and purchase a prescription that cost many times the price of the Quinine Sulfate. Anyway. The root of the problem is exception for specific classes. That is the issue. What class? how large? is it religion? Is it sexual preference? The exceptions are what kills society only due to none agreement of the exception.