Opening Questions on Morals

I'm sure most of you have heard or read about the woman who had octuplet babies; the same woman who already has six children; the same woman who lives with her mother in a small house; the same woman who has no means of support to, well, support these children.

Has anyone read about the Indiana woman who has been married twenty three times, making her the most married woman in the world?Not counting polygamy, I'm sure. Her first marriage was at the age of sixteen and her longest marriage lasted seven years. She admitted that her last marriage was a "publicity stunt", as she married the most married man. She was his twenty ninth bride.

Now, I would like to ask which one of these ladies is the most immoral? The woman with selfish disregard of Innocent children or the woman who not only marries as a publicity stunt, but just so she can be married? Both women have little regard for life other than their own. Both women are selfish, have little regard for others lives, physical or mental, of others; especially those whom they should "love", or those who are close to them. So which woman is more immoral?

Before you answer that and even though you probably have an answer in your own mind, ask yourself why you came to the answer as to which female is more immoral than the other. Then ask yourself by what "moral code" you are judging these ladies by; your own personal code or society's code. Now ask yourself if there is a conflict of the current social code and your own personal code of morals. If you aren't tired of "asking yourself" yet, ponder on whether your personal code of morals is influenced by our society's moral code, or is our society's moral code of conduct been influenced by the individual moral codes of the people of who the code represents.

Now if you think that I am out of questions, you are wrong. Now ask yourself, if you have determined which came first, the "moral chicken or the moral egg" in the development of our social and personal moral codes. Now ask again how we have arrived at your own, personal moral code. Have you just accepted a code that society has placed before you, even though you are not certain how society came to create this code? Are human beings born with a moral code already in place? What shapes your moral code, if you are born without such code? Does your moral code change due to circumstances or emotions? Do you take the things that you read blindly, or accept with minor questions, the angle at which an issue is presented by a politician or a newscaster? Does celebrity opinion, or political opinion, figure in the formula by which you have created your individual moral code? Do you accept the majority vote as the answer to the code of morals that we all, as a society, should accept and follow? Are you even aware that you follow a moral code? Or do you just do the best that you can, just to get by, hoping not to disturb your fellow man or his moral code?

Whether or not you were aware of some of these questions or their answers, you have a moral code. How you live your life is a reflection of that moral code. The manner in which you live your life and answer moral questions reflects the consistency of your values, and is part of your moral code. You cannot make a decision or perform an action without "tapping into" your individual moral code. It is impossible; for even to live life by ignoring any social or moral code is , its self, a code of morals.

It is not my intention to reduce our lives to merely a code of morals and decisions based on the philosophical questions and answers of morals. It is my intention to cause us to think about how we come to decisions and what leads us to actions. It is my intention to cause us to consider how we live our lives and how we come to the decisions and actions that are consider, our "lives". Our "lives" are more than just the physical beating of a heart and the functioning of the brain and all of our other organs. Our "lives" are more than water, minerals, and chemical compounds. Our "lives" consist of more than the physical and mental fulfilling of the needs to eat and reproduce and avoid pain. Our "lives" consist of spiritual issues, and the issues of morals, as well as the physical and mental aspects of who we are; or what makes us, "us".

So today, I ask that everyone who reads to think about these questions and comments. I ask that we think about how many decisions and actions we make and perform in a day, and whether we are making and performing than blindly or out of a conscious effort to obey our personal code of morals. Are our actions and considerations consistent, or do they change from day to day and circumstance to circumstance? I also ask that if you read today's blog, that you come back and read Wednesday's, when we look closer at the issues of the women I wrote about at the beginning of today's blog.

I do realize that this may not be everyone's cup of tea and that this may be just a bunch of nonsensical questions and answers by another two cent blogger/pseudo philosopher. But I feel that this is something that I need to tackle, and something that some people need to read. As I have expressed before on this site, my desire is for this blog to have a bigger purpose than sarcasm and opinion. This series on morals is part of that bigger picture. And I make no apologies or excuses as to the subject I am tackling this week. I do hope that everyone can gain a little something form my words and that this blog can have a purpose in some of our lives.

I appreciate your support! Please come back and read Wednesday's blog and encourage those who may get something out of this site to read also.