Morality and ethics should be flexible enough to allow for our individual character. Otherwise ‘being good’ can make us miserable.
Tag: Ethics
Selfishness, selflessness, and the environment
Selfishness is very natural to our biological selves. We are organic systems interested in our own continuity, descended from a long line of organisms who
Long-term patience (endurance)
Patience has a long-term dimension to it. As well as needing patience in the moment, and patience over the course of a day, we need
Balancing self-focus with other-focus
Recent generations are often accused of being self-obsessed. The term ‘the me generation’ implies that, at times, whole groups of people are over-focused on themselves,
Maintaining integrity
We live in an already-soiled world. That is to say, we do not live in a vacuum, where moral problems can be kept out like
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