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How come we have moral standards?
One apparent reason is that we learned to do so through socialization, which means that our actions were molded from infancy on wards by our families, preschools, and nearly everything we came into touch with in our settings. Morality is an innate feeling of rightness regarding our own and other people’s actions.
One argument is that moral norms are conveyed through sacred books and religious leaders, and that even non-religious people’s values have been absorbed from the religious past surrounding them.
Morals emerge from a person’s ideals. Values provide the basis of a person’s capacity to distinguish between good and wrong. Morality expands on this to provide precise, context-driven laws that control a person’s behavior. They are shaped by a person’s life experience and are subjective.
Humans have a moral sense because their biological makeup dictates the presence of three essential conditions for ethical behavior: I the ability to anticipate the consequences of one’s own actions; (ii) the ability to make value judgments; and (iii) the ability to choose between alternative courses of action.
Moral standards, in particular, deal with issues that might either substantially hurt or gravely benefit humans. Moral standards derive their legitimacy from the line of reasoning that was used to back or support them, and hence cannot be produced or modified by specific bodies of authority.
Early psychologists mostly assumed that newborns are born with no sense of morality and must learn it as they grow older. Although a fully formed sense of morality does not emerge until puberty or later, we now know that newborns immediately exhibit symptoms of a primitive moral compass.
Moral standards are those that are concerned with or relate to human behavior, particularly the distinction between good and evil behavior. Moral standards are principles that individuals hold about what activities they feel are ethically right and bad.
Some of our moral intuition is inherent. Even babies as young as two years old may detect injustice and unfairness. However, the majority of our moral sense is influenced by our upbringing and surroundings. Our environment molds our sense of morality immediately after birth via encounters with family, friends, and society.
Moral values are vital for society because they teach individuals how to get along and live in harmony with one another. They educate us that all human beings deserve the same rights, which is why discriminating against someone based on their nationality or race is unacceptable.
Morals and ethics must be taught since they are not imprinted genetically. Humans are not born with innate morality. We are taught moral and ethical behavior. They are distinct from manners and etiquette, yet they serve as a prelude to moral being.
