Q. Why does it happen that not only the moral values of different persons living in a society are different but also their level of faith or commitment towards their values is also different? Which factors are responsible for such differences in your opinion?
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A society, though seemingly still for a long time, may not be undergoing complete homogeneity. It may have been formed of individuals which came together after a 'long walk', Odyssey, and over-time admixture of genes might have happened but different consciences remained confined to particular individuals. No solution. Dissolution.
Kingdom Animalia; Humans a species. Survival is the aim. Morality; a means of better or ensured survival, yet it suits the stronger better. Swaddled with pains of lonely life; the precarious life which barely ensured self-sufficiency, men, as if by some heavenly dictum, agreed to inter-depend on each other. A collective interest the morality was- honesty, non-violence, help, gratitude, alms-giving,- were ways to keep society from dissolving.
Society. Heterogeneous. Different theories of survival each individual develops. It has been found that though two dogs are of same species, one gets violent and hard to be a master of, the other is obeying and tame. Nature, i.e. behavior or habit, is the result of molecular combinations within the brain, as Mercies writes in The Nervous System and the Mind:
“Where the rearrangement of molecules takes place in the higher regions of the brain, a change of consciousness simultaneously occurs.”
And these molecular combinations are result of outward environment. For illustration, if a society is formed of people of tropics and higher latitudes of north, over time the inter-breeding would lead to resemblance among individuals, and assimilation would result in common norms. But the theory of survival of each individual will be decided by his ancestry, northern latitude- violent, tropics- renegade to animalia kingdom, and if admixture happens the genetical laws of dominant and recessive traits will come into play, that is which method of survival will be chosen by an offspring.
Let's imagine a situation: in a society there are a few people with Capitalistic genome (the word 'Capitalism' is used quite vaguely and the author here doesn't intend to break the tradition), a quite large percentage of people who are still in 'beast-of-burden' stage, and the remaining few with fully ripened consciousness (a consciousness which is realised can never let the body which it accompanies to damage the other consciousness). In that society, people with Capitalistic genome will make 'Honesty' as the 'Best Policy', the reason being that they want their accumulated (no matter by which means) wealth to be protected. As they want all people of 'Beast-of-Burden' category to keep working for them a new moral value will be initiated: “Be content with what God has given you”, and the working people will be contented; the easiest way of survival for those working people is to simply obey the Capitalistic genomes, thus they serve and survive. But those few conscious people shall not accept those moral values because for them survival is not merely the survival of their individual bodies but the survival of nascent consciousness which dwells in every species of their kind, for these people the morality will be to fight against the established parasitic morality. For these people the faith in their moral values shall be highest as the consciousness which knows itself strives forwards for its survival along with the survival of all other of its kind while in people of Capitalistic genome the commitment in their moral values lies only upto the extent at which it can provide them with profit and in people of 'Beast-of-Burden' stage there is no commitment or faith in moral values there is just an inertia and though there is a possibility of metamorphosis of them to go against Capitalistic genomes but that change is only a transfiguration of them from 'Beast-of-Burden' to 'Lion'. The 'child' is still to be born.
I understand it's quite long, but if you have time can you please try to evaluate it.
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HallI have written this on the above question:
Why? Are you practising for some test? If so, which one?
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HallA society, though seemingly still for a long time, may not be undergoing complete homogeneity.
I read that, and it was enough to make me stop! Much of your writing i