PERSONAL OPINION
Moral principles are a way to indicate what is right, good, virtuous, or ethical in the way that we behave like human beings. The basic way to identify if a person’s action is moral is by identifying whether the action done brings harm to other individuals. Actions that induce harm to other individuals cannot be regarded as moral whatsoever. Morality is a direct reflection of one’s positive values, such as fairness, altruism, and empathy for others. Moral rules are very important in our communities for individuals who transgress them by refraining them from vices such as lying, stealing, or cheating. The first tier of being moral is ensuring that you observe and reciprocate the good treatment from others in order to reward empathy and cooperative behavior for group survival.
If morality is used properly, it will help bring about social order in our communities. However, molarity is very ambiguous and depends entirely on direct exchanges between two individuals. Molarity can be observed as actions that, when taken by one or two people, brings ‘a greater good.’ Etiquette is another indicator of morality. Moral action and behaviors ought to reflect a person as one with etiquette and respect. The most appealing subject of this discussion is the relationship between morality and religion. Although morality is often derived from religion, it cannot be put under the action of being religious. Being religious does not obviously reflect morality, and therefore not all moral people are religious.
I believe that we are not morally obligated to help others. This is because morality is basically about creating no harm to anyone. Everyone needs first to allow himself to achieve certain things to survive. Therefore most of the time, help is a tertiary feeling that we accord ourselves to satisfy our egos and imagination of ourselves being in the same situation.