Oh joy another morality question, can it be different?

[2fish]

Now I am no historian when it comes to morals and morality, but it does appear to have changed over time. So my question is what do you think it will take to change our current views of right and wrong?

Now this is based on the question of what is the current idea of morality and should it change why would it change that way?

I see our base morality focused on the Ten Commandments no stealing, Murdering (this does not mean killing), having sex outside of your marriage, ect. However I think we will stick with this core as long as Christianity/Judaism/Islam area major religions. But I can see the details changing as they may become more lenient on these subjects, still prohibiting the act, but not the depiction of it as we currently are.

By this I mean movies/tv/games will be able to get away with more, but in real life the laws will stay the same. However the fuzzy area is murder vs killing as to kill for your own gain is a bad thing while to kill for your country (others) or the good of a greater power is a good thing.

What do you think will happen to our moral system in the future?

 

[Smooth Operator]

What it will really take for us to change our views is evolution, not the industrial one, ours.
Right now we are all hung up on greed, because it has proven most useful in the times of cavemen, but as we became the dominant species greed is non-essential and should be left behind.

Sadly there are no quick changes in organic evolution, and so we wait, most probably another 10 thousand years before we can change/forget our primal instincts.

 

[Spinozaad]

Now I am no historian when it comes to morals and morality, but it does appear to have changed over time. So my question is what do you think it will take to change our current views of right and wrong?

Now this is based on the question of what is the current idea of morality and should it change why would it change that way?

I see our base morality focused on the Ten Commandments no stealing, Murdering (this does not mean killing), having sex outside of your marriage, ect. However I think we will stick with this core as long as Christianity/Judaism/Islam area major religions. But I can see the details changing as they may become more lenient on these subjects, still prohibiting the act, but not the depiction of it as we currently are.

By this I mean movies/tv/games will be able to get away with more, but in real life the laws will stay the same. However the fuzzy area is murder vs killing as to kill for your own gain is a bad thing while to kill for your country (others) or the good of a greater power is a good thing.

What do you think will happen to our moral system in the future?

I think that 'our', as in: the Western(ized, world has her morality based on the Enlightenment and Revolutionary Era from 1740 to about 1795. These Revolutionary ideals still dominate discourse, with regards to the natural equality and rights of Man.

I consider it likely that these ideas will be reshaped and re-affirmed in the coming decades, especially considering the resurgence of traditional Orientalism, as analyzed by Said, in the West. With the Oriental Other, which is despotic, a terrorist, barbarous, et cetera. our traditional ideals of democracy, freedom and justice will in no short time go away.

On the longer term? I have no idea.