When I was a kid, I remember being enamored with the concept of organic morality...what feels good(not sensually) but what you know in your heart/conscience/soul to be good IS GOOD...I know how it feels to be in conflict with yourself, making decisions that are harmful and self-destructive. I can't imagine how it would feel to do another man serious harm or death...I know it would not feel good whether it was in self-defense or whatever the context. Basically, I feel the golden rule/karma-dharma/ Qur’an 42.30 provides all the morality any sentient being needs...Overstanding cause and effect, the reaction your action will produce is not arguing hypotheticals or moral relativism...I think we are all endowed with the innate ability to discern right from wrong action...true, one's upbringing, parents, family, community all have huge influences on our ultimate morality/code of ethics...the most negative influence is our CULTURE of convinience and mindless entertainment, where children's creativity and free thought is stifled by their passive role in being entertained by media with no value or substance...I think it is through play that our morality is most powerfully shaped...in competitions, games and play acting situations to mimic what surrounds us.
Relativism seems closer to a Non-Aristolean understanding of the universe...for how many millenia has it been A or B? white or black? good or evil? Now as physics moves toward quantum mechanical models...This statement is neither true nor false but contains a degree of truth and a degree of fallacy...Quantum mechanics is aiming to see the A/B dichotomy along a gradiation...It is said that once in contact however brief and however long ago, atoms will share an inextricable record of the contact...I don't see relativism as an excuse for wrong action, it is more of an overstanding that "to every worker, his due wages" as the masons say...We reap what we sow, so the more we become conscious of the divinity inside all living beings the more impossible it becomes to harm or destroy that spark in yourself or others
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