morals and ethics.......

<p>where have they gone???</p>

<p>so couple weeks ago, i was sleeping over with some friends. They decided to go and egg houses in the middle of the night and insisted me to go. So, i went along but told em its not actually nice and right to egg random houses and just that its going to cause trouble for random people we dont know. But, as expected, they ignored me and continued and i actually gave in after a bit, going against most of principles. Later on, i just felt bad. </p>

<p>I know this is a very little thing and you guys probly think im an idiot for taking the time to write this.........but, this actually made me think on a greater scale. I think some people including myself should have better ethics and morals. I have vowed to never go against my principles and morals to fit in with other people ever again. Ok yeah my dumb little story. </p>

<p>Comment on this or lets discuss morals and ethics and the importance of ones character. I believe its the most important thing in the world. I have a good personality and character but not all the time. I am really trying to improve my character to become a better person so um .........yeah.</p>

<p>egging a random house is bad.....egging some1 you know and don't like is not.</p>

<p>yes that is exactly what i had said and the reason i had felt so bad...</p>

<p>well even if i dont like someone, i wouldnt egg their house because its just that it troubles not only that person but their family as well......in the middle of the night.</p>

<p>Your values are different from your friends'. What a dilemma (sarcasm).. stop judging their behavior and start hanging out with different people!</p>

<p>Egging houses is so much fun though lol.</p>

<p>Even when your own house gets egged, you have to stand back and laugh for a bit. All you really have to do is just hose it down a bit anyways and pick up some shells.</p>

<p>we live in a world without morals (just look at all our politicians). no one is perfect, and that one thing you did doesn't make you a bad person</p>

<p>egging someone random is a step to far. Its funny if its someone you know.</p>

<p>They never really were there or gone in the first place...</p>

<p>Why do people always equate the past as a time of "better" standards? Seems like some kind of grand delusion that comes from the miserably short human life span. People were always morally/ethically corrupt since the beginning of time... Well, it's a sad deal but it comes in the package of being human. I'm glad you're trying though... :)</p>

<p>ahh yes egging. a common practice among insecure high school kids trying to appear cool. if you really just stop and think about what you are doing, you realize how pathetic it is that you have nothing better to do with your life on a weekend night than to throw eggs at a random person's property and take pleasure in causing inconvenience. </p>

<p>How cool. Wreaking inconvenience upon strangers.</p>

<p>Egging is just dumb. I'd probably kill someone if they egged my house (although they'd probably also get in trouble w/ the cops since I'm on a base haha).</p>

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<p>This man knows the truth.</p>

<p>Anyway, morals are relative...considering there's no single action that can be defined as good or evil (evil is a word that has no place or meaning in a secular society)</p>

<p>I thought egging only happened in the movies >.></p>

<p>Egging houses? Thats so sixth grade. Cool kids use paintball guns. Everyone knows that.</p>

<p>Consider yourself lucky. You could be thinking about the morals and ethics going into agreeing to have sex with a girl who is drunk. </p>

<p>Egging houses... I thought we left that behind when we entered high school.</p>

<p>lol yeah apparently this egging houses is still in trend where i live. But yeah, i didnt mean to completely surround the thread around the act of egging. I was actually trying to make a point using that event as saying where have morals gone?? As far as i know, my parents and grandparents had way better morals and ethics. By that i mean they didnt egg houses or argue with their parents as much as is done today. I know it is generalizing but even the generalization of the past is better than what it is today. That should tell us something.</p>

<p>Morals and ethics are all relative. My morals may be good comapared to Johnny, but might seem terrible compared to Susie. The point is that you have to be comfortable and happy with yourself, and that is the bottom line. You can't force people to change their morals and ethics overnight, if at all. </p>

<p>Dude, egging a house is a small price to pay to learn this lesson. It could be far worse (as aeroengineer pointed out). </p>

<p>I'm glad that you have a conscience (that is spelled wrong, i know) and know the difference at least.</p>

<p>A couple of nights ago I caught some of my younger brother's "friends" TPing our house at 10:30 in the night (seriously, who TPs at 10:30?? i guess middle schoolers can't stay awake past 11:00 P.M.), so I shot them off with a BB gun. In the morning I called their parents who made them clean it all up.</p>

<p>Middle schoolers...</p>

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<p>so you "egged" them on... sorry paki, couldn't help it. :)</p>

<p>seriously, i agree it is lame and pathetic. next time, just say no, you're not going with them. just tell them it's wrong and it's not your kind of fun. And that it's inconsiderate to those poor people who have to clean up that mess.</p>

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<p>Our cultural norms are completely different then what they were. Or is, in other countries, for that matter. For example, many people in our generation don't expect to be married a virgin, whereas our grandparents and great grandparents were expected to abstain until that special day. </p>

<p>If I were a conservative, I'd blame the media. If I were a liberal, I'd blame the conservatives.</p>

<p>aeroengineer, you made a good point about cultural norms. However, this norm setting in is just completely corrupt according to me. Everyone wants to give in to bad stuff, get laid, or do something that is considered counterculture. I am a conservative in continuign good things and a liberal in changing the bad things. It just sometimes sort of ****es me off. Not that i can do anything, control anyone, or change a whole lot. But now i feel that it is getting to me and the harder I try to abstain from it, the more it hits me.</p>

<p>well yea just like what panky14's stance on morals and ethics... everyone has come to believe that morals and ethics are relative... we are now in the post-modernism society where there's no absolute truth (sorry i'm not trying to preach here). egging a house may not matter for some, while it matters for others, although IMHO i think that egging a house is meaningless whether or not there's no absolute truth. if a group likes it that much... they should egg each other's houses</p>