Good Deeds Moral Fiber?
Posted by ramicaOct 6
Good Deeds, Wow it has been mattered everyday in life. Everyone’s Parents in this world teaching their sons and daughters about good deeds their giving them a moral fiber even when we young our parent is telling every day why should we do’s and don’ts that is there part to be a parent. Parenting us and to tell about good manners so we have a good future with that before we go on what is a good deeds? Maybe your thinking what is it even when you looking at the internet what is good deeds no can explain with that and no one can give a definition about the words good deeds but let me tell you something. People could argue forever about whether an act is a good deed if the doer’s motives are mixed. By my own understanding of the term good deed, giving a gift to charity is a good deed even if it produces a tax deduction for the giver. A simple service doing by a child is a good deed even if done their assignment from School. Someone who gives their neighbor a food when they neighbor doesn’t have it has done a good deed.
If you define “good deed” so narrowly as to exclude all acts that earn recognition, you have a logical problem. Good deeds are likely to be recognized. The stranger to whom I give directions on the street may thank me, thus showing appreciation. Giving food my neighbor n their house. Surely these acknowledgments don’t knock my altruistic acts off the “good deeds” list. Giving in secret is nice, but giving in the open is nice too. But one thing I want you to define by your own words I want you to define “MORAL FIBER.”
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Comment by cyren on October 6, 2009 at 11:40
Hmmmm morality is such a slippery slope you know.
It’s all entirely too subjective. For one thing, the idea of right and wrong are in themselves purely human constructs. There is nothing that can actually be said about ‘good’ and ‘evil’ because it almost seems like we have simply inherited the value systems of our fore-fathers/mothers and they, before them.
Who says giving someone food when they don’t have it is a good thing? Perhaps you or I. But then again, where have we got these values? Where does it say that giving someone food is good? It is certainly not a natural thing. So then what is good? What is bad? Nothing more surely than another one of society’s machinations to keep everything in order. I don’t believe “good” or “evil” are natural. Like any other binary, they are extremely value-laden, which makes them extremely problematic because if you think about it; “where did those values come from?” and “whose values are they really?” As with any binary, the binaries of “good/right” and “bad/wrong” are suppressors of marginal spaces.
But my point is, that morals are very subjective, and one man’s good can be another man’s evil. You can see this even today, when we look at various tribal/cultural practices and label them as “barbaric” or “morally wrong”. But what we often forget in the proccess, is that these acts are what constitutes the way of life of different cultures and are therefore perhaps what’s “morally right” to them. A more contemporary example would be in the simple notion of homosexuality. While many of us today are accepting of homosexuality as something morally neutral, there are many who still believe that gay-sex or indeed gay-love constitute a form of degradat of “moral-fiber”. And of course when taken to the extreme…well, I suppose you only need to take a nice, long look our world history to see what can happen when morality transcends into essentialism.
So I guess in that sense there can be no ONE absolute agreement to what constitutes, or fits within the definition of “moral fiber”. There can only be MANY versions to it. Or indeed you could question the very “realness” of Moral Fiber. Perhaps there is no such thing. How can there be when the very nature of what is constitutive of it is as fluid as it is shakeable.
So I guess my answer would be to just live your life to what is most moral for YOU, I say. And do it because it weighs down upon YOUR conscience, and not just because “people” or “society” tells you that to do so would constitute a form of moral fiber.
Peace.
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Comment by Fatima Da on October 7, 2009 at 05:42
Grt post and of course we all mostly likely will have different interpretations of the meaning………. This obviously makes the subject area subjective as mentioned above hence difficult to argue . So what it right to me may be wrong to the other person…. I suppose the core principle here it to be Good with a clean conscience. Thanks for sharing
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Comment by A Dreams-Teller on October 8, 2009 at 08:27
Visiting from MyBlogLog. Moral Fiber and what it is in a person? Well, I think of fiber as a tough substance and it can be in a person as well as in foods and other materials. Key word is tough…toughness: To overcome the temptation to go wrong, go down the wrong path. I wish some of our city councillors and politicians had more moral fiber these days.
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