Morals

29 June 2014
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A reader asks The Committee about them.

"How does one maintain a sense of morality and realize at the same time there is no true right and wrong?
Is it completely an individual experience? How do we live with what we see as an injustice and while
allowing others to follow what they feel is moral? After reading the interview with Bin Laden and then an
article about female circumcision I realize those feel they are culturally doing the right thing while I find
it horrifying. Non-attachment is the ideal but I am not there yet."

Q: How does one maintain a sense of morality and realize at the same time there is no true right and
wrong?
C: There are true rights and true wrongs, as you choose to see them. This does not mean that wrong
and right are easily modified, switched, discarded and set aside for inconvenience. As you choose to see
them is the collective of all of the you, humanity. Morality comforts you, it supplies a certainty and
assurance its absence corrodes. It will ring true and feel proper, without a sense of questioning of concern;
you will know what is right for you and others around you by your intuition and you need never maintain
a sense of it; it will be automatic and easy to know what you believe is moral. Truth about mathematics in
Beijing is unlikely truth for the Turkish mathematician in Ankara; yet both shall find truth in their work;
with a little interpretation, common ground, also.

Q: Is it completely an individual experience?
C: Yes it is and no, it is not. If each of you were to exist separately, without material human contact it
would be completely individual. You are alone and unconnected to other humans every day, often asleep
and sometimes awake. Does morality enter a state of suspension during these unconnected moments? The
cumulative collective, experience and sense of morality created from it are collective with great
individual effects, as you choose to allow them participation in your beliefs.

Q: How do we live with what we see as an injustice and while allowing others to follow what they feel
is moral?
C: This is exactly as you should do it; well phrased and placed is your question. We shall say, how
much imposition upon your own selves do you wish to have? Choose, then impose by equal measure
upon others, and effective shall be your efforts to lower injustice, as you see it. What injustices do you
commit that will be lowered in you, by imposition and force? Have you none and possess you perfection?
Do you? Balance degrees of injustice as you seek them corrected, as in chemistry. A good formula
achieves a desired result.

You should not feel detached; why? The knowledge has entered your thoughts for a reason. We suggest
this use of culture as justification is but rotten fish wrapped in perfumed paper; no act or behavior need to
be justified by the use of such description. If it is deemed to be a part of culture yet abhorrent, then
abhorrence is the culture; we hope you see this naked logic. Current trends in western societies deem
ideas of cultures as lesser or primitive, improper; value should be sought in everything, criticism not
applied. This is not humanity; are you all of similar size, weight, colors and textures of hair? Likewise
your internals are equally diverse in function and your ideas and thoughts must logically be distinct,
varied and unique in similar volume, complexity and capacity as are the outer and physical differences.

Does the ingestation of a health robbing diet deserve approval for the obvious bad effect created? Thus
why should a social practice deemed culture automatically require such approval?

Change what you wish altered, by example. Friends you shall attract, disagreement likewise. Be glad for
the differences of opinion; for yours is this also, in the eyes of others. As appeal grows by the comfort the
new idea supplies, so shall a higher sense of morality, as you desire and create it, collectively.

Be well.
Comments
Denise 06/29/2014 8:05pm
Thank you. I shall ponder this.

cristina 07/01/2014 4:14pm
"Change what you wish altered, by example. " I guess this means "be the example you want to see in the
world" :)
I always remember committee's advice: "allow disagreement to happen and the majority will follow
anyway what is right for them" :)