Journal Entry Immorality is promoted throughout society in numerous ways. The most common promotion is done through media, television, movies, music and entertainment. Who determines the level of immorality? Who determines whether or not something is morally right or morally wrong? “How can we be obligated to behave in a certain way regardless of our goals?” ((Kant, page 129). Like the genetic makeup of any living being, it is from within that we can see the real nature of what is noticeable on the exterior. Kant stated that if you decide to do something you should ask what rule it would follow. He stated that this would be your maxim and you need to decide if you would want your maxim to become a common law.
The romanticizing of immorality comes with a heavy price. The obvious outward signs of society’s moral decay comes with our inability to differentiate between right and wrong. I believe that with the changes in our country, many people are losing their filter when it comes to following the rules of morality. They spend so much time looking at how the circumstance will benefit them or their family and not so much about what effect it will have on others.
We often look at the actions of criminals and make them somewhat of a hero, something like that if Robin Hood, who stole from the rich to give to the poor. He was a thief, a criminal yet the people if Nottingham made him into a hero. Why is that? Is it because we romanticize the bad because it is done for the good of people?
I believe that the understanding or misunderstanding of moral rules powerfully affect how we perceive those around us. People that participate in breaking the moral rules are different than those members of the rule-making or rule-abiding society. But those ruler-breakers are saddled with the label of what society sees them as. Do they recognize that they can change