All The Answers May Be Wrong

Mor-al : adj.; of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.

That is the textbook definition of "moral". But on whose standards do we live on? Would we live on our own. Some people would like to think that, but we learn from generations before us, we learn from the people around us, who we hang out with, who we learn from. Everyone. No matter how hard you try, morals come from those who has murdered relentlessly, or those who steal from others. It's these actions that causes us to build up our morals. When a murderer is caught, everyone 'hates' the murderer. But isn't it funny how you can hate one person, and not the person next to them? What if the person next to them did the exact same thing, but didn't get caught. Is he good in your standards?

So what is right, and what is wrong? Is right, when you do something good. What if the right thing to do was to do something terrible. Would that clash with your morals? How would you know? We question who's right, and who's wrong, but who sets these automatic answers? We can't constantly say "Oh, that's the right answer." Because what if the person who claimed that, that certain answer, was completely wrong after 120 years later (of course, one can't live that long, but you understand what I'm saying). Everything would be in chaos. What if something like the Matrix happened to you? Would you take the Red pill, or the Blue one?

I know I'm probably setting myself up to look like a hypocrite, but I am not a perfect human. I make mistakes, I'm prone to them. But it seems as if this generation, my generation, is slowly becoming dense, and not in the good way either. We have books that are perfectly fine in it's original text, but kids are trying to find the easy-way-out. Which is saddening.

I wonder if Sparknotes decided to shut down and that goes for Cliffnotes, Pinkmonkey and whatever else there is out there, if this generation can actually keep up with their English, or better yet, to understand what they are reading.

But, I'm getting off topic. It's these morals that have been preset when the "first Americans" set foot on this land. These morals hang each and every one of us on a string. Will you cut yourself off and set your own morals?