Changing Our Opinions To Make Others Happy 🌇 Don't Let Anyone Remove Your Voice💢

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Sacrificing Ones Ideals

If I were to recount the ways that we, as a species, sacrifice one ideal in favour of another, the task would overwhelm me.

I believe for the most part we become so accustomed to sacrificing our values for the fulfilment of others to even question the practice of doing so would be seen as antagonistic.

For instance, as a species, we value the lives of one another; consequently, the prohibition of killing exists in our ethical code.

Our Values Being Compromised

Yet, homicide has been sanctioned, universally, in favour of security. In alternative words, in many countries, across the globe world, capital punishment is employed as a way to punish certain offenders; many countries use deadly force to protect themselves and others.

Some see this for the very issue it is, compromising our values. They see an inconsistency, a contradiction, a deviation from that which we say we value and that which we actually value.

Conversely, the majority of individuals build exceptions for homicide; the majority believe homicide isn't only forgivable but also justifiable as a means of defence; that's to say, if they had to kill somebody else, to protect themselves, there would be no crisis of conscience.

Excuses To Form Justification?

In fact, we, as a society, don't even call killing another person to protect ourselves homicide; we call it self-defence. Likewise, we call killing other human beings in defence of our Country casualties of war.

I believe we redefine certain actions to make them morally right in our minds.

Many people are against killing animals for sport but see nothing wrong with killing animals for food.

Morals Should Be Set In Stone Instead Of Being Malleable

However, these same people would find it difficult to kill the animals they intend to eat. As we become more departmentalised and agriculture is isolated to rural areas, a lot of the meat we eat has been processed to the point it's no longer recognisable. In fact, many young kids don't understand that they're eating things which were once alive.

I believe the reason we attempt to redefine the values that must be compromised for the sake of others is that, to some extent, most of us have reservations about our actions, even if they're widely accepted.