Harmer or harmed?

A simple question with manny details entacted. I must say though, this is quite the question to ask someone and stun them with many wells, and ifs and maybes. I for one have many answers.

Call me evil and call me rude but if I were to be one over the other I would be the harmer. Only because I cannot deal with being hurt, and when I mean hurt, physically hurt. But then again, I would never be able to find myself to cut someone up or stab someone to death. But I would rather be doing the cutting then be recieving the cuts. Let's to say that if I were to be the harmer than I would feel some kind of guilt, let's to say that I would have no guilt, and with no guilt I would be the harmer still. Easyily answered.

If the situation was being the bully by using rude words or be bullied, I would be prefer to be bullied. To explain my answer, it would be merely because I do not really take into account what other people have to say about me, especially if they do not even know me. Sticks and stones can break my bones but words, nah, they are truly something different. So in this case I would be bullied only because I know myself well enough to know that the thoughts of others have nothing to do with who I am as a person or how I live as an individual.

I guess what I am trying to say is that if being harmed is only by words, then I choose to be harmed. If it is with physical pain and with no guilt entact with me after I harm someone, then I would be the harmer.

Morals & Ethics day II

It has been exactly one hour and forty minutes since I have had ethics/philosophy 090 and the essence of the class is still very strong. That smell has been opened my mind to the idea of morals and ethics being the survival kit of society. As time passes by society and its casualties definitely shift from one idea to another and because of this is it possible to say that morals and ethics, themselves, shift as well? Or can one say and have evidence to prove that morals and ethics remain constant in an ever-changing world? How does one choose what is morally right and what is ethically wrong? For morals and ethics truly depends on an individual, does it not? I can say that, as an individual with many morals and beliefs, what I find morally wrong may be morally right to the person beside me. To one person having one girl/boyfriend is morally right, being faithful and having commitment vowed to one soul, but to the next person it maybe morally disrupting at the thought of only having one to be faithful to. One may not be willing to say out loud that having more than one is morally right, but in the mind, where the deepest of secrets lay, one can definitely say that it is morally right. On the other hand this is only an example and a rather simple example compare to the more horrific and gruesome examples, such as genocide, war and abortion.

Truthfully, the more important people make a topic, for themselves, the harder it is to come to one conclusion on what is morally right and what is ethically wrong. When there are more minds in the discussion it is definitely harder to agree and come to the same standing point. Compromises can happen but do they really happen without having a worst turnout?

Completely true it is that morals and ethics shape the individ- in individual. For without them would we even be able to do and see things the way we do now? Stop to think one moment, strip away your morals and what do you have? A human being who is living passively just like everyone else. We would all be the same; maybe not living the same lives but not having a clue on what is wrong and what is right; the idea of what should be done and what should not be done. Let me use an example from the biblical stories of the Christians. If Adam and Eve, being the perfect beings and made in the image of God, had not taken a bite out of the apple, would we be perfect beings as well? Take away the serpent that represents not only Satan but poisons of what is morally wrong and one has two perfect humans with no care about morals because they have no idea what is wrong and what is right. The self-consciousness is not there and overlooking for flaws is not possible without knowing what is right from wrong. We would be even more chaotic with our lives because not having morals and ethics is equivalent to not knowing what is wrong from right.

Maybe I am wrong with my idea and it just sounds right as of now because it is in my own thinking, my own liking. So change my mind with your thoughts and opinions.

Is it worth the sting?

I started this blog because another student in my ethics/philosophy course invited me and I thought that I might as well as make a blog now rather than making one later.

This class will be interesting and I am excited to see what is to come. I have a feeling that this class will be time consuming; whether it be in a good or bad way will depend on the individual. More on the good side for me since I tend to find myself in awe of philosophy.

Well, it is getting late. 

I'll blog some more later. =]