Moral Degradation of Modern Society or Moral Evolution? Author: Unpretentious Diva

I amply subscribe to the judgment of those writers who maintain that of exclusively the difference between human and the lower animals, the good sense or conscience is by off the beaten track(predicate) the most important Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man. Is it the phase of moral degradation of community? To even attempt answering this question we have to first scram at a definition of religion. The first question is argon we decease as to what it is?In the study of moral philosophy morality has been defined from ii perspectives, personal morality which is what you feel from your conscious as right and social morality which is what the society as a whole feels to be right. art object the origin of personal morals are very simple and light dictated by only one basic dictum that is naive nobility of the human soul. A person may be a criminal but he will always know from darksome with that he is wrong unless he is a psycho. Social morals and are not so, they evolved f or the singular reason that is to control man, to tame him so as to all(prenominal)ow sustenance of society.In its essence it as well is noble, for society too is a need of humanity. We wouldnt have evolved to this juncture without this structured nerve wished society. If I am sitting here and typing this, it is because someone else is cooking for me. Not everybody usher out be thinker and scientist, but they all in their own ways help in sustenance of the society and phylogeny of mankind as a whole. It is moreover difficult to conclude from here that social morality is right in all its perspectives.The sad helping of the society is that it was not formed best logic of will enough cooperation and subordination, with reverence to human soul and its spirit. For most part of the history it has been henpecked by mystiques and brutes, the map of the society was to serve mankind as a whole but it ended up serving a few who had the power and intellect to manipulate the rest. It is for these lacunae in social morality that I consider personal morality as a far more(prenominal) superior guideline to judge whether you are right or wrong.There are m any(prenominal) an(prenominal) such arbitration in the social code of morality that has no logical support to its stance except some obtuse religious dictums or traditions that a society has been following from clipping immemorial. This expression Honour Killings. the Ultimate Price Women pay for the False Male self is an apt example of how unjust and harsh these codes of socio-religious morality can become. Of the many such debatable issues of conflicting personal and social morality I would like to discuss here the issue of versed morality.The sexual dismission of the modern times has been largely viewed as a serious moral degradation of the society at large. On the issue of sexuality and our sexual needs, first question is whether it is our need or of the society. I debate that all of us would agree tha t we have sex not just to become kids, to refurbish the human resource. We have it because we need it, nature made us so. I have a deep reverence for nature, for I believe that any need that nature instilled in us has a purpose and is intrinsicly good.The society in its primitive from had put in a lot of restriction on sex. The first reason was If sexuality is liberated it would have killed the institution of marriage and therefore the society. Models of these societies were all very potentate/ tyrannical where men were expected to have a very graduate(prenominal) quotient of obedience. As we evolved we slowly moved on into more democratic and accommodative models of society where the quotient of personal responsibility and maturity and liberate volition outweighed any kind of socio-religious adherence or obedience.Many a moral codes of conduct however were just borrowed from the old model of society which obviously has no quadriceps femoris for these individual freedom and volition The new world order as was dreamt by philosophers and intellectuals is slowly coming to reality. It is for sure that if you refer to the old maintain of social morals we would find ourselves morally degraded, but if we believe that at least now we are living in a free world free society, then society must start quick for man rather than vice versa.We need to remake on our studies of ethics and come up with better a moral code which provide for needs of a man and gives him/ her freedom to seek what they desire as long as they are not harming the society at large. A society that respects man as an entity, his rationales his intellect and his judgement and the innate goodness in him. There used to be a time when it was moral to burn wives down alive on their husbands pyre (Sati). Is it today moral? Will all of us call our change in perspective as moral degradation?How can those women think of some other man? What is wrong in free sexuality, if it is forced, it is a rape t hen it is wrong because you are violating the will and independence of another person. Is homosexuality wrong? I think no, not at all because it is volition of individuals, it is what they need what they desire. It is thus I feel that we need to rework on our books of ethics, make our moral codes more humane and Man friendly. And that very is Moral Evolution. (Rudra)