Is morality natural?

Question

it changes from time to time, from culture to culture.

seems that a group of people are dominating to say what is right. do they really have this right to define morality?

Answer 1

It's subjective! Each person decides what is right or wrong for themself, unless they adopt the morality of another!

Answer 2

the morality of the society in which they are reared is the one they live by.

Answer 3

Morality isn't and shouldn't be defined.  It is necessary to adapt morality to suit the needs of the community.

For example where there is overpopulation like China have a large familly may be seen is immoral.  Conversely in Italy the birth rate is too low, so couples are being encouraged to have more children.

People who insist they have a monoploy on morality are wrong.  Different communities will have different moralities because they have different needs.  It would be unfair to require Eskimos to become  vegetarians, because they would starve to death.  

When you join a large comunity there has to be compromise. For example, the E.U. won't allow us to give certain medicines to horses, because the French and Germans want to be able to eat them.  On the other hand we pose restrictions on the free movement of animals into Britain because we don't want diseases like rabies entering.

Sometime instituitions try to define morality to suit their own purposes.  For example the opposition to the use of condoms by married couples has no social or religious merit. It stems from  religious leaders who want their flock to outpopulate other groups (and perhaps to keep women at home).  False morality has been used to subjegate women throughout history, by ALL religious groups.  I say "false" because when women have had comparable status to men, communities have faired better.

Here is a beneficial example of adaptable morality.

Influenced by his Roman Catholic upbringing Adolph Hitler wouldn't allow women to participate in industry or fight the enemy.  This one policy put the n**i war machine at a huge disadvantage against the Allies and Russians who both liberated their women to contribute directly to the war effort.

Answer 4

no. There are kids as young as 10 in the world who think it's wright to blow people up.

Trained by their parents. This is why parenting is so important.

Answer 5

Yes it is life and Life is the answer

Answer 6

No, I don't think that it is, take abortion for example.

Answer 7

There is probably something such as innate morality but it isn't forced upon people; rather, it is in ones best interest to act in a specific way which has, in retrospect, been labelled moral.

I don't think religion is necessary for morality. There is intrinsic morality in which the human being acts in its best self-interest. Having said that, morality is sometimes scewed by temporary upsets to the human environment - such as war.