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Originally posted by nersiegerl
A person's morals unfortunately is influenced by society. It is not the one person that needs to change his morals, it is Society as a whole....Society definitely needs some help with a lot of issues.
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Well, it's a question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, isn't it? What is society but a collection of individuals? The individual members of a society form its structure and belief system. On the other hand, its very difficult for a single individual to change something he sees wrong with the society around him. There were Germans who voted against Hitler; I'm sure many Arabs abhorred the 9/11 incident; many white southerners were against the institution of slavery, but the society around them had in effect tied their hands. In this you are correct.
But then again look at the individual acts of conscience and courage which occurred in all these situations: the white southerner who was a member of the underground railroad, the German citizen who hid a single Jew or an entire family in his attic, the Arabs who fought on the side of the allies with T.E. Lawrence in WWI. There are still plenty of hero's among us, no matter what society we may happen to live in.