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CuriousLord -> RE: Desperate Morals (4/27/2007 4:43:53 AM)
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I would argue that beings make initial determinations of desirability of particular physical conditions in the very earliest stages of life and come to form morals based off known processes to acheive the greatest approximations to such known physical states of desirability. This is altered with time as the inner view of physical condition of desirability is continually partially lost due to natural processes and replaced with new motivations and input, perhaps concerned with, in part, morals contrived from earlier desired states of physical condition. This theory holds for all stages of life.
From this, I would argue that it is possible for TV to alter one's morals through prolonged exposure. I would, however, also note that it would achomplish such ends through presenting alternative processes to desired physical conditions which, while possibly in contradiction to previous morals and processes, are, at the core, contributions to the general understanding.
It is a common misgnomer concept that input into others which causes morality in contradiction to our own established is somehow corrupt for it causes said individuals to deviate from the processes conductive to obtaining physical states of desirability. This notion is due to a failure, through either negligence or willful ignorance, to consider alternative processes.
As an off-shoot subject, one must note that morals are, in this view, subjective based upon understood input. One, by controlling input, controls morals. This works in dual fashions.
1.) Those who are unable to grasp the entire picture ensure that input is common so that common morals are derived as this contibutes to their identity of self.
2.) Those who are able to grasp the entire picture may manipulate those who are not through selective input such as those in case (1) did. The important deviation in this case is that said input is not necessarily mutual between contoller and controlled but an partial input of controller.
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