How Did You Personally Learn About Morality? Do You Think the Government Should Engage in the Moral Education of Young People Today?
Topic 7B: How did you personally learn about morality? Do you think the government should engage in the moral education of young people today?
Introduction
The decline of morality
Recently, there are more and more news talking about the immoral behavior done by teenagers in Hong Kong. Some of the girls are willing to involve in the compensation dating in order to receive more pocket money. There are also more students who have experienced the sex harassment from their teachers or their tutors. The Law Society of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University underwent a survey about “Concerns Ethical Standards and Prosocial Behavior of Young People” in 2011. The result reflects that over half of the teenagers agreed that the moral standard in Hong Kong is declining (Ploy U. & LSHK, 2011).
Morality and its status
Morality is a socially embodied medium of understanding and negotiation over responsibility for things open to human care and effort. Morality is found in practices of responsibility that are not modular with respect to the rest of social life, and that are apt to reflect social differences, including gender, race, and class differences typical in human communities (Walker, 2008). Morality is normally regarded as the things people ought to do. It shows the good and bad, right and wrong, the values of one society. Morality is only a standard raised by the general public. It does not have the real power, like laws, to regulate the behavior of publics. As a result, people would not be caught or be punished even though they do not follow those rules. Since morality is just a general concept set up by the society, in another word, it does not have a unified definition and judgment, the meanings of morality would be changed time by time, place by place. For example, a man was allowed to take several women as his wife in the past China. It is no longer allowed in this century, however. Morality takes an essential role in monitoring people in
Introduction
The decline of morality
Recently, there are more and more news talking about the immoral behavior done by teenagers in Hong Kong. Some of the girls are willing to involve in the compensation dating in order to receive more pocket money. There are also more students who have experienced the sex harassment from their teachers or their tutors. The Law Society of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University underwent a survey about “Concerns Ethical Standards and Prosocial Behavior of Young People” in 2011. The result reflects that over half of the teenagers agreed that the moral standard in Hong Kong is declining (Ploy U. & LSHK, 2011).
Morality and its status
Morality is a socially embodied medium of understanding and negotiation over responsibility for things open to human care and effort. Morality is found in practices of responsibility that are not modular with respect to the rest of social life, and that are apt to reflect social differences, including gender, race, and class differences typical in human communities (Walker, 2008). Morality is normally regarded as the things people ought to do. It shows the good and bad, right and wrong, the values of one society. Morality is only a standard raised by the general public. It does not have the real power, like laws, to regulate the behavior of publics. As a result, people would not be caught or be punished even though they do not follow those rules. Since morality is just a general concept set up by the society, in another word, it does not have a unified definition and judgment, the meanings of morality would be changed time by time, place by place. For example, a man was allowed to take several women as his wife in the past China. It is no longer allowed in this century, however. Morality takes an essential role in monitoring people in