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Question:From what I understand for people who don't believe in God obviously they don't believe that morality comes from God. Morality is based off of what a society deems to be acceptable. What we all or the vast majority can agree upon as morally right. Morailty is based around what we can agree upon or what you as person think is moral. If that's the case then does immorality really exist? Down in other countries they kill off little baby girls because their not worth as much as the boys. If their society can come to an agreement upon that being Ok. Or the majority rules as Ok. Do we have the right to call them immoral? same thing with abortion. Some think it's immoral, some think it's not. I think all these "married dating" site are an abomination! but the people who make these site and help people cheat clearly don't. If it really just comes do personal preference. Does immorality truly exist? From God stand point he says don't have an affair. I guess that's simple.....


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: From what I understand for people who don't believe in God obviously they don't believe that morality comes from God. Morality is based off of what a society deems to be acceptable. What we all or the vast majority can agree upon as morally right. Morailty is based around what we can agree upon or what you as person think is moral. If that's the case then does immorality really exist? Down in other countries they kill off little baby girls because their not worth as much as the boys. If their society can come to an agreement upon that being Ok. Or the majority rules as Ok. Do we have the right to call them immoral? same thing with abortion. Some think it's immoral, some think it's not. I think all these "married dating" site are an abomination! but the people who make these site and help people cheat clearly don't. If it really just comes do personal preference. Does immorality truly exist? From God stand point he says don't have an affair. I guess that's simple.....

Morals or morality are secular terms used to denote those things in our society which are "right, "proper, "decent"and for the common "good of the society" in which they are followed.

I don't think any society declared infanticide to be moral, it was just practised outside the law.

Things such as, cheating or married dating are not moral but are more and more common, just as you suggest, but they are not technically against any law since the advent of "no fault" divorce.

Abortion is a health issue which must stand on its own and not be judged on terms of morality.

If you want a society where every lie, every bad school report, every minor misdemeanour is punished, then the prisons would contain nearly all of us. Then you would have morality in extreme.

Immorality will always exist, we are only human and none of could stand up to extremely close scrutiny.

morality is so subjective as to be meaningless.

If your society one day decided to up and kill you, how would you respond?

"That's unfair! I have done nothing wrong!" or "I admit i committed a crime."

In other words, you evaluate what the society does by a moral code that transcends it. You don't say "Well the Government says it, so I guess I should die."

There are things common to people that transcend specific societies throughout the ages. That's ultimately what all people use to determine morality or immorality. The specific rules may change, but the common things remain the same.

For example, people may choose to extend marriage to homosexual or polyandrous couples, but they justify it by appealing to people's common sentiments about love and equality. They don't for example try and say people should marry traffic cones.

morality is an answer for any responsible question. what is question? that means subjectivity, and appear always in answer as morality. morality exist in law of nature & universe, but immorality exist in human for there personal interest or subject they like to express themselves where they are against to law of nature.