That is perhaps, the best known philosophical question. Based on that, my own question is similar. If there's a stop sign in the middle of the forest and there's nobody to see, do you have to stop?
The measure of maturity is that one does what is right because it's right, not because one can get away with doing what one wants or what is convenient. So the answer to that question is yes, you stop, you do the speed limit, whatever is right and correct because it IS right and correct.
That ties in with moral truths. There is truth. Truth does not change. Cain knew that he had sinned when he murdered his brother Able. Murder has always been wrong and men have always known it was wrong, and yet the Good God felt He had to put that in writing. This fact tells us just how inclined we are to sin. When you stop to think about it, it's embarrassing to the human race that God felt He had to put anything in writing.
Chaos so reigns in the world at the moment, that men have descended to new lows of immorality, or amorality as it were. Our society rejects, not only Divine authority, but we reject our own authority. We began with twisting God's law and perverting the purpose of life, and we twist and pervert our own laws.
Still, we persist in thinking that basically, we're all good at heart. It's a nice thought, "I'm a good person, I play nice with others", but the sad fact is, we each begin at an early age to thwart the laws of God and progress to thwarting the laws of our own households by disobeying our parents and then disobeying the laws of the state. And yet, we still insist we're good. Which brings us to the question of the concept of obedience, but I'll leave that to another post.
Just how blind can we be? Behind it all is pride and a colossal self love which allows us to do mental gymnastics almost to the point of contortion- ism and we deform our hearts and souls beyond recognition.
"What fools these mortals be".
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