How Can We Tell What Is Good Or Bad?

How Can We Tell What Is Good Or Bad?


     To tell what is good or bad, a person needs to consider what he or she

considers to be morally sound and immoral.  A persons morals are taught by their

parents and from the society from which they are raised.

     Society is not worried about what is good or bad, but how to obtain

money and power.  Money and power can dilute the values of what people judge

morally right.  While the moral way of living would be to work a normal forty

hour week to earn income, the easy and immoral way is to lie and cheat in their

occupation to obtain promotions and benefits.  Aristotle said,

     Every art and every "scientific investigation", as well as every action

and "purposive choice," appears to aim at some good, hence the good

     has rightly been declared that which all things aim (Aristotle, 517).

Today society is not aimed at good.  This society has become a "me" society.

People are thinking of "me,me,me" rather than thinking of the good of others.

This society has found it acceptable for a football superstar to be found with

an illegal drug to depart the judicial system with probation and again to play

football.  This is a true example of how people today in our society live their

dreams through celebrities.  People idolize immoral sport stars instead of

holding in a higher regard common everyday people, who are God fearing, hard

working, and ethically moral.

     While in this society it is hard to tell what is true, it is also hard

when compared with other societies.  For example, some European countries have

legalized the use of mild drugs.  These countries have attributed this toward

less crime.  Putting the question of This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!


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