In real-life experience, we realize that there are moral duties. Morality exists. The question we ask ourselves is the following: what do these moral obligations depend on? Do they depend on society, culture and the particular situation, or do they exist independently of these?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s consider an example: you have a child, but someone murders him for fun. Is there a culture, or a situation, in which, murdering for fun, is morally right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So moral absolutes do exist. Let’s make one more example, being kind to others is always morally right. Morally, it’s never wrong to be kind to others, no matter the situation. On the other hand, rape is always morally wrong. One person raping another person will never be morally right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some say that morality is something that most people in a society have agreed upon. During the Second World War, Hitler created a society according to which it was morally right to kill Jews. But does the fact that everyone agreed to kill the Jews make that morally right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, opinions are one thing, and morality is quite another. Each person has their own opinion on a certain moral topic. People argue with each other about moral issues. But morality goes beyond people’s opinion. Morality is something above opinion. Some things are right or wrong, whether people like it or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If now, in the place where you are reading, a doctor came to perform an abortion on a live child. And if you saw the baby die and be dissected, you would intuitively understand that abortion is morally wrong, because it is the willful murder of a defenseless baby. When we are faced with something morally wrong, we can perceive it through our conscience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The doctor who performs abortions every day loses this sensitivity. And this is what happens to societies that practice wrong morality. Over time, the habit takes away their sensitivity to morality. Why do people do this? To reap temporary benefits, such as not having to take responsibility for an unwanted child. This sensitivity is what makes us distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong. We are suppressing real morality, in order to come out with a fake and convenient morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A distinction we have to make is between law and morality. The law is a set of rules which, accepted by the majority of a people, have the purpose of maintaining public order. Through the legal system, the law ensures that individuals who break it are punished. Doing so as to discourage a certain type of behaviour or conduct. Absolute morality is a set of perfect virtues with which we can compare our choices to evaluate our behaviour. While the laws change from nation to nation, and according to historical era; morality does not change, but is always the same with respect to any era, situation or culture. Since the law depends on opinions, it is relative. The law is certainly inspired by absolute morality, but it doesn’t necessarily reflect it completely. If a person breaks the law of a country he is punished by that country’s judicial system. A certain act may be considered a crime in one country, but not in another. If in one country a person acts in a certain way he is convicted, but if in another country another person acts in the same way, he is not committing a crime. On the other hand, if a person does something morally wrong, he feels it through his conscience, in whatever country he is in, regardless of whether this act is considered a crime or not. Conscience is a wake-up call for any person, whether European, African, American, or Australian, living at the North Pole, or in a tribe isolated from the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we know that there is an absolute morality, that is independent of people, culture and situations. We know that this morality was not created by people, and it does not depend on more people agreeing on it. So where does this morality come from? How is the ability to perceive it found in us? Where does our conscience come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n