MORALITY: Ego vs. Virtue

1.      Why should we all be moral?

It is so that all of us who dwell in one world may live in harmony, peace and soundness. A neighborhood where no one suffers because no one neglects another.

2.      Don’t think morality as “doing whatever you want so long as you cannot harm nor hurt others”. No, include yourself not to be destroyed also.

3.      Morality is never to be a “selective codes of standards”, but a social contract in how each other is to be treated.

4.      Don’t say that you don’t want to follow the antiquated mores of our grandfathers, their moral values are still relevant to harmonious life. Modern liberation has some risks that you may be neglecting.

5.      You are free, yes, you are. But total adherence to the liberation of today without thinking is a form of self-slavery.

6.      Not all the mores of our grandparents are morally relevant so as not all the mores of today’s liberation are morally harmonious. Be careful, sinfulness leads your life to destruction (not necessarily in the afterlife). Just keep on thinking and be critical to the trends of times.

7.      EGO: it is the driving force that drives man apart from VIRTUE--ego’s mortal enemy. Thus, the core key to a virtuous life, other than love, is to forget your ego. To set yourself aside for the benefit of others. To learn to think of your neighbor over yourself as they are the majority and you are alone.

8.      The kernel/core cause of man’s sinfulness is ignorance and self-centeredness. Man’s mortal enemy is his own self. Thus, a key to be virtuous is to set oneself aside, and forget his ego.

9.      Ego is the taproot of man’s malevolence and sinfulness.

10.  Malevolence is a sin because it is like breaking a natural social contract that we are bound to, even before we were born.

11.  If everyone have just known to set their ego aside, especially whenever it is fit, what a peaceful world it may be.

12.  If every man is thinking for themselves, the world would be in chaos.

13.  Unity can be attained if each individuals how to set their individualities aside and submit to the spirit of the group.

14.  Money is not evil; one’s intention is the evil one.

15.  I may be writing for what I wish humanity should be. But each individual is still in-charge of their own destiny in the end.