A lot of things in ancient society that was just like your average homicide case or gang shooting are considered very wrong and absolutely insane. To me, before Christ, it seemed like the world and societies were just fine.
To begin with, the act of incest, now considered the most taboo of anything any man, woman or child can perform is very immoral. However, royalties have done this in the past in order to retain are pure bloodline and the very rich have done this to make sure that their fortune belonged to the family name forever. Though, incest wasn't as taboo as it is in today's world as it was back in ancient societies, at least that's what I think. I think incest was just fine back then. Even so, it should not be wrong to charge incest as a crime against society. Incest is a form of love, even if it is within one's own bloodline. If someone is madly in love with their sister, brother, mother, or father, it should not matter if it is right or wrong. To arrest people and strip them of their love to one another, is just pure cruelty. If incest is an act of going against society, society should have no right to separate lovers. It is your problem and not mine.
Next, is public urination. If it is witnessed, people would probably be fined and arrested on charges of destruction of public property. Again, this kind of moral behavior to me should be an example of "Your problem, not mine" sort of thing.
Then, I want to explain how people think about others' actions and how morals can really be verified. Morals, I would like to think, are not really society's principles or anything. The morals we go by today are a result of society drilling this into our minds. How I would like everyone to someday believe or understand is that we do not need to think the way society really wants us to, but we should think of the world with our own ideals and beliefs. If the world were to be without set morals, I think the world would be a somewhat easier place to live, but I also think it would be more chaotic too. Whatever the case may be. Say I were to kick my dog in front of a group of other people who just happened to be walking by or standing around conveniently there to witness the event. Now, the first thing they would probably say would be "Oh my, that poor dog!" or "What a cruel man!". To me, that is an example of how morals written by society work. Without those kinds of morals, it wouldn't become a legal issue. If I were to kick my dog and someone would witness it, it would become legal. However, that is an act of invasion of one's own business as I might say. If you were to witness me kicking my dog and you didn't have society's written morals within you, you would just leave things be. If the said dog was biting my shoe or even if my pant leg was caught in its mouth, I would be kicking it for a plausible reason, to get whatever it may be, dislodged from the canine's mouth.
Finally, to conclude my entry, I would like to leave you readers off with the note that what I have written is actually how I have viewed the world even in youth. This is why I didn't care for most things people took to heart, like the Michael Vick case with the dog fighting. It was his and the dog fighters' own entertainment and their responsibility. It was society's wrongdoing for invading his privacy and all that nonsense. I am not saying society is wrong by arresting him for this, but I am just pointing this out to prove my philosophy of morals is that morals shouldn't be what society wants you to think. And that anything you do that may be wrong to others but fine with you, is your problem and that others should have no right charging you wrongly for your actions. If members of society were to live by their own rules and we still have the same establishments as now, like schools, police stations, hospitals and fire stations, I think the world would be much more at ease and that people could live their lives peacefully as they want to.
If you think my message is wrong, shame on you,
Yours Truly
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