Importance of Morality

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

As an inherent need of the own growth of societies to have to control the behavior of their various characters, morality emerges as the first resource, before the conformation of the most advanced laws and judicial mechanisms, with a nature oriented more towards prevention, but also with a punitive character to way to comply with the following premises: 1) the establishment of general behavior patterns that allow the greatest possible integrity of all members of the community; 2) a discernment criterion guided by logic about what can be acceptable or not; 3) the adequacy of the standards to be met according to gender, age range and life stages; and 4) provide the bases for sanctions according to the degree and rule breached in order to guarantee, through exemplary punishment, the promotion of correct behavior. Morality is what allows people to distinguish between good and evil, respect the law, and provide respectful and dignified treatment to others, being on the level of awareness where this intimate and personal issue is resolved.

Societies have historically been conforming and evolving together with the generation of implicit structures that govern the behavior of their citizens, implementing different norms according to the different contexts for the patterns of social behavior, by means of which a primary control model is sentenced that establishes what can be accepted or not in a specific community, being this set of norms what we know as moral and whose variation can be so wide as the cultural forms themselves, being a fact that both, morality and culture, are so closely linked that the former is permanently modeled by the second.

Now, people are not born with this or that morality, but it is formed and modeled in relation to the teaching of values ​​and the models that we observe in our immediate environment, firstly at home, through parents and the rest of the family, and then at school, in interaction with peers and teachers. Although there are several ways to respond or behave in a given situation, being that people are primarily free In this sense, it will be the morality that we uphold, the product of learning and experience, that guides us towards what is right or wrong.

Customs for good living

Attacking a shared moral value or norm in a society leads, depending on the depth of the offense and its consequences, to situations that can range from the simplest form of repudiation society, the generation of gossip and the discrimination of the missing person within the most morally open societies, up to the harshest sentence with the imposition of the death penalty, in those societies where the conservation and imposition of moral standards is so rigid and obedient to the most orthodox principles of an extremism, mostly religious and dogmatic that prevails above the very need to build a fairer and more impartial legal framework, a situation that also turns out to be in itself morally questionable by the other cultural forms of the world.

Regardless of the extreme rigidity in the morality of some peoples, in general this base of behavioral norms that begin to be imparted from birth itself, serve as modelers of the behavior pattern of the members of the same community, establishing through them the common agreement of coexistence for the development of a life integrally guided towards the good live.

respect dignifies

There is a single invariable common factor for all the moral standards of human societies, a quality that makes it the most universal of all values: respect. Both as a requirement towards moral compliance, as a personal attribute through which to act towards oneself and the environment, respect remains unavoidable of its quality. dignifying, being the key that opens the doors towards acceptance and sharing between different morals and maintains the continuity of behaviors over time shared.

Boundary Differences

Morality to a greater or lesser degree also influences the subsequent development of ethics, serving as the basis for correct behavior, plus other factors. already derived from the legal arguments where the laws of each nation and those that are globally established between the agreements are combined politicians of humanity, are the ones that support and define the protocols of professional behavior according to the characteristics of each area of ​​the human development, hence, despite the fact that a fact could be morally acceptable in a certain region, it can in turn be ethically questionable, and even deserving of its criminality, requiring a truly transdisciplinary evaluation to establish the correct limits in said proceeding.

The most common example of such a situation occurs frequently in the field of medicine, where the ancestral customs from which traditional practices derive They make them part of the morality of many peoples, a fact that, even having served as a knowledge base for the development of modern medicine, cannot completely maintain them at the same time. margin of professional ethical considerations when it comes to ensuring the right to life and its safeguarding, for which reason customs and laws must be combined both for the preservation of ancestral knowledge and practices, as well as for their correct implementation by those who assume their continuity, based on what is established by the morality of their towns.

Justice, the main victim of double standards

Another of the opposites of morality is the popularly called double standard, a concept that alludes to a frequent behavior of people and institutions in our society and that consists of supporting or defending two contrary ideas or positions regarding the same question. A compelling example in this sense, and so frequent to see in our society, is the politician who questions corruption and publicly proclaims the honesty while in the private sphere it makes spurious agreements and accepts gifts. The practice of double standards is as questionable as doing evil, and also deserves condemnation, however, its use is very common at all levels.

Double standards deeply damage the trust and the respect of others, and not to mention the negative effect it has in regard to the impartiality with which it is always recommended to act; double standards will never be fair and inevitably violates justice, that public good that proposes as a maximum to give each one what corresponds to him...

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