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Most people simply lack an understanding from what I have seen outside of some set understanding of code of conduct. They have little understanding of how to expand beyond it, so they stay to the same conduct rules they were taught all those years ago and do nothing but work of the base and turn around and call it their morality. That appears to be the extent of it from my experience of this learning exercise. What is your experience with it?
Greta point. Most of our moral and religious teaching which on many ways goes hand and hand is done while we are young and so becomes a building block of who we are. These rules were taught by parents and grandparents or people we gave trust to. These building blocks are hard to overcome and so the many stay locked in place hardly ever able to alter these patterns of belief. They can't grow beyond these systems because their world may well be locked in this sphere. If the rules come via religion they remain in the faith and continue to have these laws reenforced and will not grow beyond this. Some will stick with the family belief and never try to swim upstream. I use and example of this kid who was gay and in a family that harbored ill will toward the idea of gay. The kid struggled over and over to try and figure out a way to tell family. He was so locked into the families belief system he hated himself for being gay. He went to a councilor and tried to find a way out. He could not grow beyond these family teachings and in the end commit suicide because he hated himself for being gay. He killed himself rather than disrupt the morality which was ingrained. For him there seemed to be no other way. Morals all seem to be learned and experiential within a family structure or school or church. One locked in they become hard to alter. My experience seems to match yours and this is a sad fact about human nature. Great question.
Yes much of law is based on confused thinking. Taxes welfare and so on. How much of an obligation does the state have toward any individual? It there an obligation at all? How much can the beliefs of one group override another? How many need to belong to a group before their rights influence an entire culture? Years ago I had a friend who was in a wheel chairs, She would venture out and the curbs made her travels difficult. There was a goal to make corners handicap accessible. This happened. There are 8 entries to crosswalks on ever corner. All of these were being changed to accommodate wheel chairs. Whatever the cost why all eight and not just four and cut the cost in half. No it had to be all eight. She even wondered why the wasted money and she said how many people actually use wheel chairs to get around. Society seems to use poor judgement at times. If ever corner had one port it would be fine but a law passed and so the money was spent.To the most part it is. From my experience people confuse personal desire or need with a sense of morality. Almost all law is based on this rather confused ideal be it taxes or welfare.
Our priorities are based on some strange mix of what is law and what we call morality and kindness.