Morality Play

I feel that the answers to the moral queries posed was mostly based on my childhood teachings. That was the case up until the questionnaire asked me to provide my religious affiliation. This question led me to realist that my moral high ground is on the basis of Islam, in which it is taught that taking one life is as morally equal to taking the life of all beings on this planet. To divert from that, I began to apply Logic and Reason to the equation, thinking that may help me create a sense of self choice. I discovered that my own perceptions were widely varying from differing situations. I particularly despise/dislike questionnaires that force you to concentrate on yourself as I find that particularity difficult.

No question was easy for if that were true, there must have been something wrong. I felt obliged to look each question over and if I found it was easy, I would repeatedly go over it, trying to figure out why that might be the case. Particularly difficult were the questions pertaining to taking lives. A very specific example came to mind, in which late last year, a group of teenage boys filmed the death of a drowning man across the river and did not respond to his cries for help. They instead pulled out their phones and began laughing. There was public outrage and a case was made but the boys were not apprehended. This was because it was not a law that you are OBLIGED to help those in need. And so now I question whether my morality comes from law or lack there off. Are a people as a whole basing their morality on the law or otherwise?

I learnt that questions pertaining to morality are not as straight forward as I might have once thought. Childhood teachings may play a large part, but it is ultimately Logic and Reason that control our perception of the world around us. This helped me to question my both by id and superego responses; analyzing whether I feel this way in part to society or my own, self-built ethical ruler.