What do moral values mean to you?

[Person Man]

I want to bring this thread back. I want to go further into the bedrock than this.

Moral Values are the values you personaly hold to be the way you conduct yourself. Now, there are two ways to view this-

- You can't legislate morality because you can't force people to change their beleifs. However, you can legislate ethics and discipline and you could possibly legislate the definition of who is allowed to participate in society.

So instead of thinking of this as a morality issue, I tend to think of this as an enfranchisement/ common good issue. Are outsiders too dangerous to be included or do they add to the collective wisdom of our society and the common good.

So actually, there are several major themes that come up which bring up other themes-

Some questions we need to talk about are:

Is there a common good?
What is the common good?
Who has access to the common good?
Who decides what the common good is?
How do we perpetuate the common good?
What are the goals of perpetuating the common good?
What are the consequences of avoiding the common good?
Are there parts of the common good that conflict?
Could the common good be different?
Can we change the common good?
Would changing the common good be a good thing?
How do we change the common good?

[Person Man]

He has pride....I think.

[Person Man]

Why did George W Bush overwhelming win the "moral values" category

The phrase "moral values" has become a code phrase for conservative Christian values, even though conservative Christians do not have a monopoly on moral values. Many liberal ideas (such as racial and gender equality, providing for the poor, free speech, pacifism, etc.) could be seen as moral values.

I think a better label would be "legally imposed interpersonal ethics"...but that is a mouth full, isn't it?  A more accurate term could be "Ethics Standardization".