Thunderbolts: Moral

It appears that Moral is a word which attracts a lot of misconceptions. One common misconception seems to imply that Moral has to do with a religious perspective. Quite to the contrary, Moral has no relation with Religion beyond that it ponders on the definitions of right conduct versus wrong conduct. Of course, Religion will always preach about the imperative need to follow rules allegedly handed down by the deity flavor of the day and right conduct becomes the blind adherence to those rules and wrong conduct is anything that appears to flaunt them.
We can see Moral as a set of principles which foundational support lays on the recognition of a consciousness which can differentiate actions and consequences. There is no Moral foundation if we don't learn to own our actions. When the game becomes a never ending search of excuses why the circumstances, them being social mores, other individuals, or material and social environment, are making us do whatever we do, we are abdicating any moral consideration and limiting it to a spurious judgment uttered for convenience. But Moral asks us more. Moral asks us to learn owning the consequences of our actions. Moral becomes then an art of foreseeing the flow of life and an exercise of perceptual acuity of chains of consequences in the long range. That's when utterances as the Golden Rule come into play.
Moral tell us that we need to learn to love others if we are to learn to love ourselves. Because everyone of us is reflected in the others. Moral tells us that we need to learn seeing the challenges and tribulations of others and find ways and means to help them to navigate those challenges and tribulations. Because if we are to navigate our challenges and tribulations, we are to do so only with the help of others; nobody is mighty enough to overcome life on its own. As a matter of record, we came to life by the action of others, our parents. But we can depart this life all on our own. It takes only to forget that we are part of a big LIFE and decide that we are the sole master of our own.
Moral tells us that disregarding the consequences of our actions is the most effective way to renounce to life and love altogether. And also tells us that there isn't lesser or mightier things, or living entities, and all roles are important in developing our own history. Moral tells us that nurturing is an imperative and also tells us that discriminating our world into good and bad is to destroy it.
In synthesis, Moral is Life in action, not blots on a piece of paper or scratches on the surface of a stone.