What is your moral alignment?

[EndlessRage]

What Is Your Moral Alignment?

Do you follow your own code or set of morals?

We've all been through horrible things. Bad things happen to all of us, and sometimes it feels easier to stop caring altogether and not give a shit.

Do you feel like you care less about what happens to other people because nobody seemed to care when bad things happened to you?

Pain, betrayal, loss, loneliness, disappointment.

Sometimes those experiences strengthen our values.
Sometimes they make us question them.
Sometimes they make us stop caring entirely.

Do you still believe in empathy?
Do you think everyone deserves it?
Personally, I still have empathy for others, but I don't believe everyone deserves the same amount of it. There are some people whose actions place them beyond my sympathy. Like pedophiles, mass murderers, racists. Some people who knowingly cause serious harm to others lose that sympathy in my eyes.

Here are a few examples:

Strong Morality
You try to do what you believe is right even when it's difficult, inconvenient, or comes at a personal cost. You have firm principles and generally stick to them regardless of circumstances.

Morally Grey
Will do bad things out of necessity or self-interest, but are capable of remorse, love, and growth. Rarely see people as purely good or evil.

Religious Morality
Your sense of right and wrong is heavily influenced by your faith, spiritual beliefs, or religious teachings. You believe morality comes from something greater than yourself.

Humanist Morality
You base your morals on empathy, reason, and the well-being of others. You believe people should be treated fairly and that human suffering should be reduced whenever possible.

Pragmatic Morality
You judge actions mostly by their results rather than strict rules. Sometimes doing the "wrong" thing can be justified if it leads to a better outcome overall.

Personal Code
You follow your own set of principles regardless of what society, religion, or others think. Your morality is self-defined, and consistency with your code matters more than outside approval.

Moral Nihilist
You don't believe there is any objective right or wrong. Morality is something humans created, and different values are ultimately no more true than others.

Morally Indifferent
You rarely think about morality and generally focus on your own life and interests. Questions of right and wrong don't play a major role in your decisions, you just don't care anymore.

Situational Morality
You believe most moral rules have exceptions. What is right in one situation may be wrong in another, and context matters more than absolute principles.

Wounded Morality
Your values haven't disappeared, but pain, disappointment, or trauma have changed how you see people and the world. You still care about right and wrong, but experience has made you more cautious, cynical, forgiving, or conflicted than you once were. Part of you still wants to believe in people; another part remembers why that's difficult.

 

[Mirelight]

A mixture of Moral Nihilist + Personal Code?

I don't believe there's an objective morality, and have my own set of rather flexible principles mostly aligned with what most western progressives consider to be "moral".

My moral nihilism also leads me to empathize with everyone no matter how bad of an action they have committed (I know, a little controversial). I wouldn't agree with action of a serial killer or a rapist but I understand their action was in making since their birth with many factors outside their influence.

I say that because in most cases people who commit such acts usually come from troubled past themselves or come from a place where they have rarely been held accountable (extremely rich/ pampered etc). Most people probably find it disagreeable, specially for the second case but as someone who was once in such a place myself and committed a minor evil (stealing from my parent at age 12 and trying to put blame on someone else) I tend to empathize with those people too, doesn't mean my outrage is lessened by the injustice, I just understand the circumstances that led someone to be so blatant as to commit such evil with little regards.

I obviously have emotions I feel when I see injustice, it boils my blood just as much as anyone but in between those outbursts there are moments of cold rationalization where my empathetic side makes me understand why such an evil even occurred in the first place. But again just because I try to understand and empathize with why people who commit evil acts do so, it DOES NOT in any way mean I condone any such actions.

It's in a way similar to an engineering student trying to understand the physics behind a car crash, it does not mean they condone or want to see more cars crashing.

 

[EndlessRage]

A mixture of Moral Nihilist + Personal Code?

I don't believe there's an objective morality, and have my own set of rather flexible principles mostly aligned with what most western progressives consider to be "moral".

My moral nihilism also leads me to empathize with everyone no matter how bad of an action they have committed (I know, a little controversial). I wouldn't agree with action of a serial killer or a rapist but I understand their action was in making since their birth with many factors outside their influence.

I say that because in most cases people who commit such acts usually come from troubled past themselves or come from a place where they have rarely been held accountable (extremely rich/ pampered etc). Most people probably find it disagreeable, specially for the second case but as someone who was once in such a place myself and committed a minor evil (stealing from my parent at age 12 and trying to put blame on someone else) I tend to empathize with those people too, doesn't mean my outrage is lessened by the injustice, I just understand the circumstances that led someone to be so blatant as to commit such evil with little regards.

I obviously have emotions I feel when I see injustice, it boils my blood just as much as anyone but in between those outbursts there are moments of cold rationalization where my empathetic side makes me understand why such an evil even occurred in the first place. But again just because I try to understand and empathize with why people who commit evil acts do so, it DOES NOT in any way mean I condone any such actions.

It's in a way similar to an engineering student trying to understand the physics behind a car crash, it does not mean they condone or want to see more cars crashing.

Yeah, that's understandable, Hurt people hurt people.

 

[Tomorrow Is Today]

Interesting, didn't know there were classifications to this. For me, I'd lean towards a combination of humanist morality and personal code.

I'm of the belief that our autonomy is one of the most important parts of our identity. In that sense, and it would make sense for everyone to develop their own beliefs. I value the acceptance of these beliefs, and the right of each person to act on them fairly.

The obvious example here in SaSu would be suicide. In that line of thinking, if a person's code and reasoning lead them to a rational conclusion that CTB would be better for their well-being, then it is humanist to allow them to pursue this.