When other people started to talk about humanity, they always relate them one another between morality and humanity.
To me, both things are different. They are far too different.
If you read Hobbes' writing in about sovereignty, he tells you the same fact about humans and morals are two different things. Same goes to Immanuel Kant who is famous for writing "Prelegomena".
The very nature of humans are politics, we are inseperable. You cannot separate humans from politics. It already exist in us, even when we were young. You all have fought with your siblings. That's politics. You all have fought over who is the best in school.
That's politics. The only difference is that we all are different in terms of the level of our "political consciousness". It haven't came to us yet, or very soon it did.
That is because our life actually dealts with one another, we never actually lived alone. Our interactions indeed involves even with non-living forms including our environment and even non-humans like animals. The way we feed dogs, we pat cats and give food to other animals, there is a "response" in terms of actions.
In the case of humans, "actions" and "response" relates to one another.
It also could be only be actions or just words.
Or it could be none at all. But we can't hide the fact that
there is a "communication" there.
Failure in communication such as ignoring or misunderstanding is just a different part of story.
Anyways, there is an attempt of "communication" there. So interactions actually "exists" like energy. It cannot be created or destroyed.
But it can be decreased or increased.
If we were to talk about humans and speculate their actions one by one, there is a lot to wonder of actually. But nothing to be so worriful or something you'd have to think over and over again.
The answer is simple, we are subjective. Behind the reason of being subjective, we have rationality in everything we do.
And behind the rationality, there is or there are emotions. To what we really feel, to what we really sense.
Hence, happiness or sadness could very well be an interesting question to ask.
Such as, "why is she happy?" or "why people love to complain and be sad?"
Complain, is their rationality.
Sad, is their emotion.
Reason, is one thing thing that is subjective. We can't really guess why. We can't really figure why.
So on twitter I see so many people "why can't people say nice things to other people?"
I only have one answer, that is the reality.
Not that I conform to violence or racism for example. That is for me, not the nicest things to do to other people. But it doesn't apply to everyone.
Violence and racism is something that is socially taught, something that people do because others told them or as a consequences of events that happened to them.
Recently in Corsica, a mosque was vandalised and its prayer hall was ransacked. "Get out Arabs!" was one of the insults slurred by the protesters.
The event is, the presence of immigrants.
The consequences is, the racism.
That is what people needed to understand. There's a clear line and difference in there.
Hence the emotion. Hence the rationality.
For them, it is the right thing to do. To protest, to get on the streets and voice out.
To some, it is a big no.
So to actually relate humanity with morality is actually wrong. There is no actual word of "human values". It is only we as the society created so as to relate them with our emotions. So that we have the feeling of compassionate and respect towards each other. It is what we imagined and apply to our life.
Morality however, are sets of standards we set as a way of living. Discipline, principles, beliefs, those are the things that we as the society put together as a covenant or contract between each one of us. So we may live in peace and harmony.
Behind our reasoning, there is a rationality.
Even if we did things without planning or without thinking, there is actually a reason. Even if we say "there is no reason for me to do that", (i.e: taking drugs, smoking).
Because in actions, there are emotions.
Anger, sadness, happiness.
Hence, to rationalise every of the reasons what we do in our lives, we set "moral values" and standard way of living.
So from there you see cultural norms or practices.
There is a clear line between morality and humanity.
Humanity is subjective, it can be altered anytime. Morality is something that is unchangeable, it can't be altered due to the reasonings we have already set.
What I wrote here so long is that I hope people actually at least, do something for themselves or for the society.
Start to act and understand ways of living. Recognize our differences and have compassionate towards each other.
I found it so sad and depressing when people fought just because they are racially different. Yes. That is how "political conscious" society are supposed to be but you can't expect everyone to do the same you ever wish how it suppose to be.
Right and wrong had actually became subjective. There is no clear line between what is wrong and what is right when at the very end you could finally see its consequences.
How does killing or humiliating one another justifies your reason to protect and upheld your own race?
What is more saddening is that people can't seem to understand the scenario. People are only able to speculate or complain the event that happened due to the moral standards or sets of belief that they have been taught; the way how society is supposed to be.
That is just the same as just watching the house burns and you complain about it. And you do nothing at all.
If we were to talk on a more personal level like gossips or love, then it could also be very well applied there.
Sometimes people are afraid to do what is right for themselves and become irrational.
When they do, that is when they tended to become more passive and inclined towards something that they don't want to do.
Moody, depression, drugs, ignoring people around you.
When people fall in love, what is right inside their minds?
Was it lust? Or was it just love?
Why people would lie to other someone they love about how they really feel towards her/him?
Why would people be more inclined towards others when they already had a lover?
Cheating is another thing. Interests. Losing interests. That's why. But reasons, is subjective.
We often became doubtful of things. We began to question of things for its validity. We needed valid reasons to be loved or love.
We often tell people to change towards positive side. Yet they still are more inclined towards the negative. Hence, we fight. Because of the moral principles we believed. And what's making the love subject more harder is ego.
In nature we are egoistic. Humans are egoistic for setting of their own way of life. But at times, its these ego that people don't know that harms them. And then it made us more lonelier than ever.
People deny love, when they actually needed one. People stressed they are heartless and strongest, when they actually do need people to support them. Thus when they do that, they became irrational for their very own behavior.
Irrational is when you deny for what you really want for a reason you believed which is actually harmful for you.
The thin line of rationality, is irrational.
When they are irrational, they lack the courage to face challenges. They asked for an easy life instead of asking the strength they so needed for tomorrow. Start accepting that the truth hurts. Get out from your comfort zone if you wish to be strong. Stop saying you are strong without doing anything.
It's these human relationships, that made people like us are subjective. Humanity and morality are two different things.
It has a clear line. Yet many people don't see that.
I hope people could make a change towards themselves, from personal level to the bigger context of the society. Because no human is an island. You lived with interactions. What you do has a set of consequences towards other people.
I hope people become an open-minded in facing challenges of certain issues and seek solutions, answers more than arguing who is wrong or right.
And above all, I hope people had the courage to correct themselves for what is wrong to right, putting rationality before emotion takes place.
Even if I explain this long, it won't make a change because I am putting a high bet most of you will not care to understand this.
Or prove me wrong here.
It's 3AM. And I am still awake.
Damn.
Asyraf Amir. 20151227.
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