Do you feel a sense of responsibility for influencing other people's morals?
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When I was a classroom teacher, I did at times feel like I needed to guide young minds in the morality of hard work and acheivement vs sitting back and letting the government support you ... Getting a job vs selling drugs and having more babies ... but I worked in a very small "backwards" town in rural Texas at the time.
Cheating?? WRONG ...
Stealing?? WRONG ...
Lieing?? WRONG ....
It seems those are things teaching should enforce, too.
BUT ... mainly I taught Math ... and used my Questions of the Day to get kids to ponder life situations.
Only my kids.
La
Yes I do feel a responsibility for influencing other people's morals when a situation calls for it. Morality is really the only thing that keeps us from tearing our societies apart. In fact its one of the things that has always fascinated me about religion and religious beliefs. True believers will often argue the finest minutia of doctrine, as in who inspired the writings, who wrote them, who delivered them, is one religous doctrine better than another. But the value to me of a books like the Bible, Koran, Tanakh or Talmud are the fact that they are guidebooks for living your life and they have moral lessons within them to guide human beings in their everyday life. At the core, this seems to me to be more valuable to mankind, than their origins though that is fascinating as well.
I don't guide the morals of anybody but myself. I fell no responsibility to guide the morals of anybody else. Go find some other example to follow.
I wish our governement and financial institutions would act more responsibly, but I'm not in anyones face on an individual basis forcing my morals upon them.
A friend once said, "If your going to throw your morals out the window call me.... I'll help ya" Now that is true friendship. A person to help hide the bodies....
No, if I an opinion is requested, I will give it. If this influences them, then my work is done.
But - do any of you associate with people you consider to have lower morals than yourself? Most of us gravitate to equals or superiors in morals....And those with lesser, we shy away from or make a distance from them. Or at least I do.....
I stopped hanging out at the jail entrance long ago!
I try to do the right thing all the time. If that influences others, so be it.
If I have a position of authority over others, I will exert the influence necessary to see that they do the right thing.
Other than that, other people are are on their own to make their own mistakes
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