Exemplification Essay: What Is Morality?

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“Morality” the subject always attracts debate. The questions moreover start in a logical sense and then accelerate into the conundrum of derivation, where is morality derived from? Is it a gift of life, result of once own experience and observations in relation to the prevailing laws and social norms? Or is it the reflection of once religious upbringing and scriptural teaching? Irrespective of where it is derived from, we humans are proud to have morals as it distinguishes us from all the other animals. We have the ability that no other living thing on this earth has; to differentiate between right and wrong, to accumulate knowledge, to live in a social environment helping each other in different ways. It would not be fair on my part if I didn’t …show more content…

This does not mean we should not help these people but just the opposite. We have changed our human operating system, instead of helping a beggar, homeless or an unemployed by providing a few dollars we should try to rather find a permanent solution. Yet all the cases are not same, some are forced into becoming a beggar and some are just lazy to work. You might all have seen the movie called “Slum dog millionaire”, where a child full of life is held down and poured hot acid into his eyes so that he could be place as a beggar and also might have seen fakes, who fake injury or bodily …show more content…

In the year 2012 the top hundred richest earned a stunning $240 billion, enough to end extreme poverty four times. By giving them money we have been acting like a barrier, a barrier agents’ progress. We provide them with a very nominal amount of money that gets them through the day and in return it also restrains them from achieving worthwhile goals in life. But it is a crime to give child beggar money because every time you give child beggar money you’re sucking out their productivity and pushing them deeper into the vicious circle of crime, prostitution and forced labor. The solution lies in our perception and our commitment towards these deprived people. We are profoundly happy when we drop a few cents into a beggar’s cup but fail to realize that the suffering and the guilt that we felt when we saw a beggar cannot be levitated without complete eradication of poverty, injustice and discrimination. More so, the ethical and moral thing to do would be to provide education, eradicate discrimination, establishment of a syndicate of a homogenous mixture of governmental, individual, private organizations and foreign partnership; governed by the stake holders including the children providing, shelter, mental stability, clothes, education and financial aids which will insure the all round development of the children till he becomes

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