Structural Morality
I was considering a post over at Street Prophets, a religious based off-shoot of the DailyKos community (btw. Good luck and best wishes.), when my mind wandered to the role of religion, and charity as a whole. And thinking wouldn't be it a wonderful world if everybody was as charitable as some of these churches....
Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if we didn't HAVE to be.
Wouldn't it be great if we all had healthcare, and didn't have to worry about destroying our familes if they got sick. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the environment we lived in didn't make us sick. Wouldn't it be amazing, if every worker who worked hard, and played by the rules was able to comfortably raise a family, and send their kids to college.
Wouldn't it be simply heaven on earth?
Morality isn't just for individuals. We are social creatures. We live in communities. Our communites, on a number of scales, have morals, and moral values of our own. But often times, we accept structural immorality, because it doesn't affect us. It's not hurting us, so we don't care.
This in and of itself, really is completly and totally immoral. Structural immorality should never be accepted. If it's what works, then a cost-benefit..a real one with ALL factors included should be made to determine the best course of action. But I'll tell you something.
It rarely works.
Because anything that's structurally immoral, is hurting somebody. It's probably hurting a lot of people. And it's tearing the fabric of society to bits. And this is usually a very bad thing over the long-run. You can keep on pushing the problems off..down the road. But eventually, it'll come back to get you in the end.
I was considering a post over at Street Prophets, a religious based off-shoot of the DailyKos community (btw. Good luck and best wishes.), when my mind wandered to the role of religion, and charity as a whole. And thinking wouldn't be it a wonderful world if everybody was as charitable as some of these churches....
Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if we didn't HAVE to be.
Wouldn't it be great if we all had healthcare, and didn't have to worry about destroying our familes if they got sick. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the environment we lived in didn't make us sick. Wouldn't it be amazing, if every worker who worked hard, and played by the rules was able to comfortably raise a family, and send their kids to college.
Wouldn't it be simply heaven on earth?
Morality isn't just for individuals. We are social creatures. We live in communities. Our communites, on a number of scales, have morals, and moral values of our own. But often times, we accept structural immorality, because it doesn't affect us. It's not hurting us, so we don't care.
This in and of itself, really is completly and totally immoral. Structural immorality should never be accepted. If it's what works, then a cost-benefit..a real one with ALL factors included should be made to determine the best course of action. But I'll tell you something.
It rarely works.
Because anything that's structurally immoral, is hurting somebody. It's probably hurting a lot of people. And it's tearing the fabric of society to bits. And this is usually a very bad thing over the long-run. You can keep on pushing the problems off..down the road. But eventually, it'll come back to get you in the end.
posted by Karmakin at 2:13 PM
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