There is an interesting story that just got finished in Dilbert, of having a moral compass !!!
Dilbert's Moral compass was broken by Dogbert and he was then promoted to the position of the vice president of the department which makes life miserable for employees !!!
Very interesting thought about having a moral compass... I am assuming that having this would mean that we can always point out the direction of the right and the wrong... having a compass also means that we also have something that will facilitate our moving in the right direction...
Now the question is, how many of us still have their moral compass working and how many actually follow the directions !!! or is there we live in a magnetic field of thoughts and opinions where the moral compass does not work because of the distractions...
All this while Hobbes just saw the future... that Calvin was being thrown into a mud hole :D
Dilbert's Moral compass was broken by Dogbert and he was then promoted to the position of the vice president of the department which makes life miserable for employees !!!
Very interesting thought about having a moral compass... I am assuming that having this would mean that we can always point out the direction of the right and the wrong... having a compass also means that we also have something that will facilitate our moving in the right direction...
Now the question is, how many of us still have their moral compass working and how many actually follow the directions !!! or is there we live in a magnetic field of thoughts and opinions where the moral compass does not work because of the distractions...
All this while Hobbes just saw the future... that Calvin was being thrown into a mud hole :D
I'd say most of us still have the compass. Not completely broken, slightly off the right calibration.
ReplyDeleteAnd often times even when the compass is pointing in the right direction, we choose to ignore it and explore some other path.
Loved this post :)
hmmm.. i think everybody have their own moral compass..so is their right & wrong...
ReplyDelete# Kashmira...
ReplyDeleteyea...
off the caliberation...
thanks..
# Tanu...
I disagree... Moral Compass like a directon compass can have only one north and one south, one right and one wrong...
what we choose as our right or wrongs does not change the base morality....
interesting conversation - can i butt in!!
ReplyDelete- so how do i decide what is moral?? is it based on the intention behind action?
-is prostitution immoral?? i am fulfilling some one's hunger in exchange for money to fulfill my own hunger (for food, shelter etc)...am i immoral??
-is modelling by the same yard stick not immoral? i sell my loox/body for money?? and am yet feted but the world??
may be immorality is to cause pain/hurt to some one -that too intentionally, for your own good/betterment...
...hmmm just randomly thinkin as i sip a cuppa @ this tea stall... :)
moral compass - i hv a vague feeling of losing something like that when I was too young to notice... . Ah, one of those sweet things we often end up losing...
ReplyDelete# Anony...
ReplyDeleteMight have a point or two regarding the questions that you just raised, but I will pass them for they are individual thoughts as well...
I am not that wise to define morality or immorality yet, but I still believe that there is one direction in which right goes... which direction I am on my way to find that out :)
# Anoop...
:) hope you find it sometime...