Why morality changes according to the society?

Question

Why morality changes according to the society?

Answer 1

Beause it is not existential,it is man made.

What you are thinking as morality is social morality is immorality

because that morality is based on kama,krodha,lobha,moha,

madha,matsarya.

Answer 2

The answer to your question is in a quotation of Dr. Singh on 'Human Nature and Development' as below,

"Major factors affecting; morality, life style, habits, values, outlook, actions, interactions and reactions are the; society, religion, family, the company one keeps, type and extent of education, economy, law and order (crime/violence/war etc.), and most importantly the individual him/her self in a dynamic state of interaction with all these avenues of learning and  teaching. The most important factor of all is commonsense which is unfortunately the most uncommon of all the senses and is most uncommonly used and the people are swayed by temptations and hypocrisy where the reality is different from projected reality. All this has time relative relation ship as well.

It is important to note and remember that humans make the society and the society affects the humans in the most subtle and indelible way.

However, the most important ingredient and building block is the human being him/her self as good and bad people have been and are in the society regardless of any other variant including, religion, society, economic and social status, time and place etc."

Hope that answers your question.

Answer 3

primarily due to so called "freedom"

Answer 4

physical morality is always changes according to time and society.

but the internal morality should be constant and same.

Answer 5

As Chuppkay quoted Dr. Singh, human beings are the building blocks of the society and society in subtle and profound ways affects the human beings as they grow. Depends on the role models an ancient saying, 'YATHAA RAJA THATHAA PARJAA'.

Answer 6

Morality never changes , its we who change the rules. Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Answer 7

I do't agree that morality changes according to the soceity. morality of individual refers to a set of values acquired. on the otherhand, morality of a majority can change the soceity. A  soceity maybe corrupt but it(the soceity) can't make all corrupt. Majority of people with high moral

changed the entire soceity - many such instances are in the history.

Answer 8

According to moral relativism, moral truths are made by the dominant view ... when the prevalent moral belief in a society undergoes a significant change, ...

facweb.bcc.ctc.edu/wpayne/Moral%20Rela...

Answer 9

Since the socities were different living in different remote locations under differing conditions and environments .

They must necessaarily fiffer from one aother  and should necessarily be changing also over the times .

Answer 10

Morality when comes from external forces like society, religion, cultural values etc, it can change because what life was in the past has changed with new discoveries, improvement in communication, new knowledge and of all basic understand of the bigger picture. What was moral in the past may now be a crime, like the eskimos sending their old into the jungle to be eaten by bears is now a crime. this practice is stopped. Because man has grown more mature and his reasoning has come of age. In fact the present society is able to reject what was right and moral in the past, and infact have morality based on their inner maturity and good reasoning.  

Answer 11

Morality is a relative term. It does not have a fix definition in itself. Need based, it can change as per place, time and situation (desh, kaal, parishthiti). Killing someone is a bad morality, but do our army men do immoral duty when they kill an intruder? Obviously not! In Nature or society where there is a ever going 'struggle for existence', every thing is decided on 'survival of fittest'. Morality is a teaching to keep us away from the indecent behaviours on our own, but not at the cost of our survival or existence where we have to struggle against vested interests to save our existence. We have every right of self defence. That is how the Nature and society works on. But yes! It does not justify us to be immoral and venture into other's right. 'Struggle for existence' is for existence not for agression for unnecessary accumulations.

Answer 12

cultural and religious backgrounds play a role.