I will put my intelligence up against 95% of the population, but that is neither here nor there.Latinoman said:For a person that claim to be a deep thinker, you certainly are not the brightest.
No gray area. Many nations (especially in Africa) men are allowed to have multiple "wives". It is the way it is. We, as a society, cannot push our belief system to another culture or nation. That's the point I am trying to make.
There is NO gray area there. Society define our code of ethics. We define our own morals. And our parents/religious believes define our values.
There is not one "global" society. We live in America/UK/Australia/Canada. Our society is practically the same. But I wanted to make clear (for those outside our society) to understand that they might have a different code of ethics.
First you say it's an individual who determines "integrity", now it's society or religion, but the world has MANY different societies and religions so depending upon where you live or which god you choose to believe in, you may or may not have integrity?
"MY god is the only god, the moral code of MY god is to be ignored at your own peril!"
I grew up in a Lutheran family. The easy route would have been to choose the Lutheran path. But instead I used my INTELLIGENCE to realize that my parents and their parents and their parents before them MIGHT not have had it all figured out and were simply following blindly the generation before them out of default. I was taught that there was ONE way, then I get out into the real world and realize that there are 100's and 1000's of different "ways". Who is right? Well, I'm certainly not going to be naive enough to believe that my parents and a select few others have ALL of the answers and the rest of the world is wrong.
Who is right? Who is wrong? Who is "moral"? Who has integrity? Ask 100 different people and you will get 100 different answers.
No matter how you slice it, your absolutes don't fly.