Sadly all too true, and yet refreshing at the same time. It would be a very dull world if everyone had the same view on everything. Most people have at least some ethics in common though. I mean the majority of us don't go out ala Deathwish looking to shoot muggers for example, although it could be argued that the crime rate might decline if that was the case. Still society says x is right and y is wrong and most of us agree to follow 'most' of the rules. And there have always been those who look down on others for being different and departing from what they consider 'the right way' of doing things. Of course those people forget that what they consider 'the right way' of doing x might be considered the wrong way of going about it by still another group. We are an endlessly contradictory species.
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Originally Posted by Xanthe
If there is one thing I've learned in life, is that not everyone shares the same set of ethics. We like to think that they do, but they don't. Each person's set is created by their lives and influences. The acceptability of one particular set over the other depends upon what group of people one is in. It is only when we are among others who don't think the way "we" do are our own values called into question. When that happens, some people try to understand the other POV, while others just condemn it for being different from theirs.  |