Where do our morals come from? How do we determine our morals in situation like The drowning child?

 

We all surely have a sense of right and wrong,but have we ever thought where it comes from?We are more involved in what is right and wrong and where to carry out the action. Morality is always seen in our gesture, in our everyday life. We tend to praise our childhood and education for the question of where our morals come from most of the time. For instance,we should respect elders and we should never disrespect elders in whatsoever situation. Nevertheless this is the time we should think where our parents and educators got their morals from. When asking my parents they told me their morals came from religious values and from their religious superiority. They also believed that dissociating from religious conviction is equal to breaking ethics in the society. Who wants to be under bad opinion in the society so if we are to conclude, it is religious faith and texts which bought proper morals in the society. Shared knowledge and personal knowledge is majorly infused here. My parents shared their own personal knowledge to me which then becomes shared knowledge for me. However other people use their compunction also known as conscience to determine morals. Compunction means a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad. Generally our morals and ethics are designed by our society. The real fact is each person has their own morals and ethics.

The drowning child by Peter Singer is a real life situation where a man wearing a thousand dollar suit sees a child drowning in the ocean and being pulled away by the currents.  He doesn't have time to take off his suit and save the child.  Is the man morally obligated to jump in the ocean and ruin his suit to save the drowning child?If I'm the man, athough I know the worth of my suit and how hard I worked to buy the suit, a life is a life and I would feel no pleasure in letting the child drown. However not everyone has ethics like me. As I said, each person has their own morals and ethics. Everyone are not perfect as there are some dirt like racism,caste and discrimination existing. Even these factors depend on the decision the man would take.

For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. One of today's most influential thinkers, Singer is internationally recognized as a seminal philosopher on utilitarian moral theory, the ethics of life and death, globalization, world hunger, animal rights, and environmental ethics.  

Humanity has dealt with various principles and ethics, and has also seen the downfall of advancement and way of life. Atlas my judgement is that humans should be able to identify their own ethics/morals along with the ups and downs of life. Experience and conscience is the best way to determine morals. I believe in Moral Subjectivism and Virtue ethics. I also support Kant's theory. For Kant a right action consists solely in an action that is ruled and justified by a rule or principle. Societal principles are also very significant and should subsist as they owe a lot to the foundation of moral values.