Morals are taught by those around us such as, parents, society etc. These are things that we consider " the right thing to do." Many times when talking about morals we think about helping others and how doing a certain thing will help or affect those around us. We aim to have a positive outcome.
In class we studied Kohlbergs Scale of Moral Development. We were asked if we would steal the only cure for a disease that will kill our loved one in a day, based on our answers the scale would tell us what we based our answers on and at what stage of morals that puts us. This scale has a total of 6 stages. The first two being pre-conventional, meaning that we do as we are told. Such as basing our decision on why stealing the cure would be wrong. The last two stages being the highest meaning that we based out answers on more universal thoughts, such as our rights and social contract. These are post conventional.
We can say that morality is complicated, we have to follow different obligations at the same time. We are told on thing, but most do another, so what do we follow? How do we know what really is moral? I believe that moral unhealthiness can lead to being emotionally unhealthy, and vice versa. Not being able to follow our morals can lead us to not being happy with ourselves. Maybe even the difficulty of trying to figure out which morals to follow, or which you believe in can lead us to emotional unhealthy.
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