Morals- The Never Ending Song and Dance Between Nurture and Nature

Morality has to do with peoples ideas on what is wrong or right, what is socially acceptable and what should be punishable by law. There are basically two prevailing ideas that encompass people’s views on morality, moral relativism and moral absolutism. The latter says people’s ideas on what is wrong or right are based on basic principles that are universal in nature. Moral relativism on the other hand makes the claim that moral judgments are subjective and rest solely on the times and culture in which one lives. Basically morality can be looked at as a mere intellectual conception or as a question of practical everyday life. In my opinion people’s behavior for the most part is governed by the unspoken propensities that drive them rather than elusive ideals. Our ideas on morality are based not only on our hereditary predispositions; since the ideas we hold to usually have to be consistent with our own behavior,  but also on being molded by a very complex association of the ideas that pervades the culture in which we are a part. The debate on morality will no doubt continue especially with advances in Neuroscience being made that question the very notion of free will.