What is acceptable and what is not acceptable not only changes from person to person, demographic to demographic at a certain period in time, but also changes over time drastically as well from era to era

Morality is like a breathing, evolving organism, ever changing with the time and the people that it exists with

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How many times have you said to yourself- this is what is right and this is what is wrong and I draw the line here - and years later you look back to find yourself slightly embarrassed at your naïveté. Of course at the that time you were not naive, you were doing the right thing

The right thing to do - there is no right answer to this question either, but looking through stories of the past it’s easy to identify certain virtues in literatures from many spheres of influence - there are certain things, certain stories that resonate with us at the core - shake us to the core

What is fascinating to me:

We all seem to have a moral compass that gives us a sense of what we are willing to do, and we feel it strongly yet if anything it is a moving target. Even if we stick true to our moral compass and we don’t change, the world will change without us, and our morality will be - gasp - immoral

what’s the answer? Perhaps along the lines of do whatever you think is right. It might be wrong in the future, your past may think it’s wrong too, but doing what you believe is right even if your future self and your past self disagree with you is important to your current self - so that’s what I’m going with

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Ah - a nice way to think of your self in the future both from your future self perspective as well as your past self having empathy with your future self. 

Yes agreed - any decision you make outside of the context of who you are in that moment isn’t going to be judgeable in the same way again, and shouldn’t be imo

when I was younger I would get a little flak for having tattoos. I would think "if this is important to me now, it will always be important to me." Not because it would always be right, or something I identified with, but by pure virtue of being something that I *did* identify with, it would continue to have value.

Relative truth, and absolute truth. The relative one is flexi, context dependent, and I love the way you frame this, July. 

Causes me to think of this as a constraint based algorithm with flexible (but not totally laser faire) tolerances. Golden rule. 

Expanding circles of care and concern.

“Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice.” —EPICTETUS

You will only ever be able to act form your level of awareness of why you are doing what you are doing in the moment you are doing it. So from that standpoint, it’s all right for that moment even if it takes you down a wrong path, perhaps that’s what it takes to make you aware it’s wrong

Yet another branch of the “live in the present” tree