Ethics, our action and societal culture; the relationship

Any action that we do everyday has its own value. It might be negative or positive value but there is a value. This value contributes and transform into impact.

In a bigger perspective the impact will be translated as our style, our family culture and adding all the family cultures in a particular society or community it will in return turn to be a society culture.

“A continuous practice may develop an attitude,” (Olson & Zanna, 1993). It is important to remember that, an attitude will later turn to behaviors.

“When a values being developed and becoming norms to a group of society, it will then become a culture,” (Solomon, 1984)

For that reason, we as a person need to understand that, what ever we does must be ethical, moral and the basis of these ethical values, morality must be based on real understanding of ethics and morality. The best based is on religion and to Muslim, it is Quran and Hadith. The religion in this world is teaching us these values ensuring the mankind would have a good life where the morality is good and hence develops a society of good values.

According to Kant view, “An action is moral, if its intention is good and the action is good.” and according to Kant also, "For any motral action, it focuses on good names, good start, and good intention and does not only look at the result of an action". In Quran says;

{2:42} And do not mix up the truth with the falsehood,

nor hide the truth while you know (it).

A society(Masai, in Africa) which has develop a practice of drinking the cow’s blood in their daily life will later becomes a norms and later translated to be a culture despite other world might say that is not hygienic. That goes to any deeds or action against a religion or immoral and with continuously doing it, it will turn to be a norm and later becomes a culture of the society. As it reaches here, the whole society will be living in darkness.

A free sex, a gambling and talking using awful words will one day be a norm if we continuously doing it despite at the early stage it might be an argument due to immorality act. Can we imagine it? Can we accept it or we are practicing toward such a culture?

Let’s evaluate and think over on these issue and many more issues which is against morality. It might be legal but immoral. Do you know one?

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