Through fables and many other tales (like xi1 you2 ji4)that we have read and heard throughout our lives, it is undeniable that people admire those who are able to resist temptations through sheer determination. However, it seems to have progressed to an extent that people who cannot resist temptations are despised by others.
I think human by nature would sucuumb to all temptations if not for education and conditioning. Being able to resist it should not be seen as something natural, instead something artificial. This conditioned behaviour allows the society to be stable. If everyone just go around robbing and raping and stuff, humans would go extinct. Education plays a very important part of maintaining social stability. So, this conditioning makes the human race more powerful as a whole. However, there is no way for us to judge whether this conditioning is actually good or not for an individual. All we know is that without this conditioning, the world would be in chaos. Therefore, people are encouraged to remain conditioned. This is done by spiritually rewarding those who are able to remain conditioned, with words like moral, good, noble etc. People who do not are despised and looked down upon.
On the more individual level, we can see why. Generally people who are "moral" treat the people who surround them better, and generally make them feel better than those who are not. You probably don't want a friend who would steal your things. When you see someone giving his seat up for an old lady you feel better because you see that the meek are taken care of. You also don't feel good when you know that someone else is cheating and he got better grades. The list goes on. Society expects each individual to obey the moral codes of conduct, because the constituents stand to lose if an individual doesn't. So the originally jagged stone gets polished and it eventually fits in well.
However, this process isn't fast enough. Education speeds up the process by punishing the people who do wrong and rewarding those who do right. This is much more efficient, but there are elements of brainwashing. They make people despise those who do not conform. Those who find it harder to resist temptations become wrong and immoral. In certain cases it seems that it really isn't worth the effort to condemn those people, because they don't do any harm.
That is why i don't see any reason why we should condemn those who surf porn.
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Comments by IntenseDebate
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2005-12-17T22:59:00+08:00
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