1) The meaning of moral is that it is a system, the existing line that separate the right and wrong conduct, a set of behavior and this subject co-exist and related to each other. Morality is more focus of what action is right or wrong that totally had been agreed by the society and social norms. Meaning of Ethics in the other hand is the studies about morality and touches a broad subject and as a guide to individual principle and as example, if murder and abortion had been made legal, it is still unethical. Now ethical is very subjective because to judge every conduct whether it is ethical or unethical dependent on the situation that governing the total outcome which is the action that had taken place is to the best interest of oneself and society as a whole or not, and it has to be understood that whether it can bring positive or negative conclusion.
2) Ethical and social responsibility is a very important aspect to our everyday life’s and keeps us very human that has feeling and a set of belief to keep the society alive embracing the beautiful moment with each other and the challenges that come our way thus we mortals achieved immortality by sharing the things we have in common. We should let our nature to take over because we subconsciously know that what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong not the other way around, it is simple as that and it is proven that human have the tendencies to help others that needed help, be it our family, spouse, friends, or even strangers. We should have a new manner of thinking if the humanity wants to survive.
3) Aristotle virtue ethics is very interesting because it focuses more on characters and principles than behavior and consequences. Aristotle argue that the good is the aim for every action and every action has a purpose. There are two classifications of good which is the good as a means and good as an end and the ultimate purpose of action is to feel happiness. Virtue is like a habit, it is one person ability to something well to perfect the nature of his own beings. Mankind is different from every other living nature because we possess the power of reasoning. Habit is a learned process; we do it every day consciously or unconsciously. When we get used to it, we get better and what Lao tzu said is true that we should not do unto others what we don’t want them to do unto us.
4) When there is no sense of social responsibilities, super races may be form and only the fittest will survive. There are too many issues concerning morality that we can talk about these days, why? Because civilization is at the end of the cycle of existence and it is such a disgrace to mankind as a whole because we are not united and there is no yet a righteous leader to guide us in a lot of different things and especially morality. Religion and the system of government has divided us mankind since. We can talk, we can discuss matter and argue until the end of times, but it does not matter, the only thing that matter is the truth. Some people say that it is crucial to have a government for the society to exist, but to me this statement is not really accurate and have no basis. The society only needs a righteous leader to guide them for society to exist, the government is not necessary and has no function except its own reason, and it was created in the first place which is to protect the land, set a barrier and controlling the freedom of others. So now the big issues concerning morality are that is it right or wrong for the United States to go to war in Iraq? Now there are two big factor that we can argue whether it is right or wrong, the first thing is that Iraq is the breeding ground for terrorist and it seems logical to attack Iraq to stop terrorist to spread to other nation and this factor alone convinced the citizen of the United States to agreed with their President to attack Iraq in the first place but now we can see that they withdraw their support for the war in Iraq that cost around $usd 3 trillion, why is this happened? The terrorist they perceived as terrorist is also the freedom fighter for the country and it goes the same way around. The citizen of United States, they used their emotion too much while the President said there is weapon of mass destruction even if he’s lying, this emotion became strong, and also because of September 11, they want something to be done, even if they know not who is behind the September 11 attack. When we talk about countries, nation that involve civilization, we should look at the history, the United States has been Iraq since around 1990 it just not as bringing their machinery as massively as in 2003 until now, so it is also logical and right for the Iraqis to take revenge and attack the United States because they had been attacked as well. We have to think everything in all fairness. Who is the real terrorist, and who is attacking whom? And who is defending whom? The another important factor that made attacking Iraq wrong is that the United States is a Democracy country and put freedom and liberty as the most important aspect, they are wrong because they attacked another sovereign country without the approval of this world, and also to make it worst, Iraq as a sovereign country had done nothing wrong. It is really unethical because war is really uncivilized act in civilized society.
5) How we ought to live is a very objective question and at the same time very subjective as well. The objective part is the general subject that keep us alive which is the very basic need of nature to survive is water and oxygen, other basic thing that we had learnt is from Abraham Maslow, the basic to complex needs that we yearn for in a pyramid graph. Life itself is a very subjective matter and opinion is different from different individual. It is good because when people have different opinion, it can leads to creativity. For me, in all sense of the word, the only thing that matter is life is that it does not matter. Einstein said a person only start to live when he can live outside himself and I think it is absolutely true in a sense I disciplined myself with humility to learn continuously from others and experiment the sweet wonderful life with each other. I always nurture my mind with great thoughts, because you will never go any higher than what you think, and to me live itself is the most fascinating kind of art especially the good life. Understanding and respect among each other is important because we live each other.
6) Morality is good and bad. It is the core of principalities that guide us our way, it makes us think before we act, and it makes us realize the benefits and consequences at ends. I do think that we should depend on our nature, knowledge and experiences to decide whether a thing is good or bad because what is right for you is not necessarily right for others and I do think that it is wrong to let the society to control our doings and let them punish us because it will limit imagination, creativity and increase ignorance but some how of course with the power of reasoning and our free will at work, we must know how to control our self and not let negative emotions to take over so much that can lead to disaster. We should have our own guideline and everything we do, we should do it for a right reason and it is always depend on the situation that we are facing.
