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[Shattered Soul]

Originally posted by Troubleshooter


First you have to establish a set of standards/morals/ethics, that will seperate you from most people.

Compromise relates to after you have established your parameters and a willingness to stick to them.

So why does one's standards/morals/ethics have to set one apart? I understand when it comes to things like educational standards being higher than the state standards. Creating a personal set of standards there is just common sense. But society does have standards, morals and ethics. They're called "laws," among other things. Some are stupid, like not allowing gays to get married, and some are smart, like forbidding unjustified murder. But some people, for instance, think it's ok to beat their children above and beyond what society deems acceptable (like some religious groups who have been brought to court for child abuse, and then justified it with bible verse)--according to their morals, beating the devil out of your child is acceptable. According to a player's morals, it's ok to cheat on their S.O. According to the ethics of Clinton, messing around with an intern is ok, because it wasn't REALLY sex.

All of the above ethics, morals and standards are illegal, yet the people who hold them believe themselves superior to those who do not agree, or take them to task for their individual morals, ethics, and standards. They're willing to stick to these beliefs and not compromise on them because they believe they're more right than everyone else.

You managed to appear to answer the first question while not actually imparting any information; the second answer implies that you did mean "no compromise" (by that, I mean that when you said "a willingness to stick to them" that you meant that the more willing you are to stick to them, the less willing you are to compromise. If a religious nut is willing to stick to the "morality" of "beating the devil out of" a misbehaving child, and will not compromise to the point that the child is beaten to death or the courts intervene, does that make the person better because they didn't compromise?)