Should we consider it our moral and social duty to make the world a better place?
470319
GOOD QUESTION!\nI think that if each person does one good thing to someone else, then everyone would benefit from both, getting something and knowing that you have given to someone who is in need. Close your eyes and Imagine that you live on the streets, with nothing to eat, one suit of clothes, and it is dreadfully cold/hot. you see people driving /walking pass you, pretending that you don't even exist. How would you feel? Many people do things out of bitterness and the need to survive. the little that you do would definitely make someones day. So yes I do think that it is our duty, even in the smallest ways, you can make a difference.
243385
Yeah, but we're the richest and most powerful country in the world, so the rules don't REALLY apply when they're not convienent, do they?  We're not worried about being MORAL, just as long as we can wage unilateral war to make OTHERS moral.\n\nWe're America, we don't have to worry about being hypocrites.
278839
The world would be a better/happier place if they did wouldn't it?  LOL!
731108
Ofcourse, we could look it up in Websters, but who has the time.\nMoral to me is the foundation of doing the right thing.\nBoy is that hard.\nDamn you "Moral" !!!
1177182
You can make a difference... you saw the movie pay it forward, right?\nLead by example!\n\nAnyone can devote their energy into righting the wrongs of our world - if you do it in an admirable way - others will soon follow your lead...\nWe could all stand to learn a little something from your ambition!\n...but that's just my opinion
1034216
Well, it seems that part of the morality of people could be attributed to what is beneficial to the species, what will keep us going.  Kind of  a pack mentality. But what is beneficial for the species isn't always conducive to harmonious sharing of the planet.  That's where what we teach our children comes in, how to live and function as a part of society.  Morals could be seen as the grease that helps us slide through life without any major snags, like prison, being ostracized, or a painful, lonely existence.
908366
heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race
1174406
We'd rather be the world police than take care of our own.  Now, i don't think we should just be giving money to the homeless, but it could certainly go toward programs and centers that help someone get back up on their feet to be a productive member of society again.
1144287
to have a better life
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Be an example.  It's hard to save the world on your own.  But if you set a positive, loving example and show the world what it is like to be kind and considerate others just might catch on.  That's what I am trying to do.  We can eliminate stupidity with our example.
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I'm sorry - you seem to have produced an opinionated rant rather than a question.  \n\nIf there is no God and only karma then there is no need for any morality at all because cosmically my actions will eventually all balance out.  If all actions are paid back as consequences then there there is no logical motivation to do anything remotely selfish as you will suffer for it.  And also one can not perform a good of selfless deed as you will be in a very direct way the benificiary in the long run.\nThus if one cannot perform a selfish act without it being agaisnt one's own interest and one cennot help someone without cosmically benefitting then there is absolutly no basis for ethics or morality.\nBy this thinking I could go out and murder ten children and eat their still warm innards knowing fully that I would bear the consequenes of my actions and because of this I would not really have done an act which would make the world any worse.  And conversly I could choose to become a doctor just to gain the benefits of helping others.\n\nI cannot accept this as being the case.  If karma removes morality by ensuring balanced and equal consequence to every deed I do it essentially removes the concepts of free will, and ethics and reduces humanity to cosmic automata no different to innanimate objects on any moral level. \n\nAlthough you may think me stupid I will go on in believing in things like God, freedom of choice, morality, good, evil and ethical choice, because a universe with only karma is essentially amoral and therefore, in my opinion, ethically worthless.
755148
You are absolutely right!!! There is so much we do can whilst we are alive to make the world a better place and increase the value of our own and other people's lives.
1184445
I believe that we should live our lives now, not for some indeterminant reward when we die.  And part of living that life means doing good works, not for the goodies but because that's what good people do.
446293
dont think the world owes you something, rather, give something to the world
1040997
I think we should take care of our own before we worry about other countries.\n\n\ndp
996083
nope, social issues are the province of individuals and governments not buisness.  Letting buisness use moral teasers lessens the value of the issue.  Instead make a better product and reap the rewards then donate to charities that you favor.
1099717
do you think the world would be a better place if people had shown more understanding to adolf hitler, josef stalin, or pol pot?\n\nif you give help to someone to do evil, you do evil yourself.\n\n'for evil to triumph it is enough that the good remain silent'.\n\n(or words to that effect).