For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.
Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.
Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.
When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.