If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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