Ursinus Intro Ethics Blog - Section B

Although cultures from every walk of humanity seem to be as different as night and day, overall, there is an overlapping moral code that encompasses every culture. With such diversity in human nature, the overlapping moral code is ambiguous and broad but it is a direction that every human being follows without exception.
The Golden Rule, treat others as you wish to be treated, is something that is very basic, that covers every possible moral code, be it the most reactionary or liberal. This moral code, however, can be manipulated by some cultures and lead this to an illogical conclusion. Hitler saw it fit to kill the Jewish “species” so everyone could prosper the Jewish stranglehold on the world. This is an illogical conclusion because he illogically came to the conclusion that the Jews were not human and did not deserve the respect as apart of the Golden Rule.
Hitler is an easy example to give of moral codes being perverted, however, a harder situation to categorize is the treatment of the elderly in Inuit tribes. When an individual slows down the tribe, that person is left to die in order for the community to live. Although this might be construed as a cruel act, I believe that this is taken out of context. Imagine that you live with a small tribe and you have helped it survive in a horrible environment. However, you, as everyone does, start to get old and actually slow down the tribe. Wouldn’t you choose to end one old person’s life in order to save many more members of your tribe? In this tribe, the idea of self-sacrifice is used to help the tribe and, although altered, is for the proper intent of the Golden Rule.

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