Beyond Morality

In my belief morality itself is not firmly set and in itself is self contradictory and paradoxical. In the minds of millions of people; morality is inexplicably tied up with religion: this or that is right or wrong for the simple reason that God has ordained it. Basically good is good and bad is bad because god says so. In this case the question arises: Do we really commit good(moral) acts because it is good and moral by the act's very nature. Or do we commit good(moral) acts because God says it is good? Believing that we commit good and moral acts merely because of God's judgement, proves one thing and that is, that morality is shallow as it is based on the stance/judgement of an individual entity. Yet believing that we commit ourselv es to these acts because of their nature proves that we are independent of God, and that God has no importance to us(morally) except that he is merely a messenger of morals.

Ultimately, I believe the actions cannot be judged nor cateorgized as moral or immoral until the consequences are revealed, but also consequences can overpower what we would normally consider moral or immoral. To further illustrate this point imagine if one were a doctor, a woman has given birth to a Siamese twins. The infants , due to some odd anomaly are going to die, as a specialist and a doctor, you have the choice to separate the twins. This would save one infant but in the process kill the other. Either way an infant is bound to die. What would you do?

Instinctively, any doctor, in fact any human being would sacrifice the life of one to save the other. So we honestly say, under this scenario, killing and taking one's life is all of a sudden moral and justified dued to its consequences. But killing being classified as an immoral act demonstrates that our current views of morality are sometimes paradoxical.