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The moral dilemmas of life are incontrovertible. Everyone must make cost-benefit decisions that don't have an absolute or clear answer; situations in which any
by cookiecaper 10y ago
The moral dilemmas of life are incontrovertible. Everyone must make cost-benefit decisions that don't have an absolute or clear answer; situations in which any of the options hold both moral virtues and moral hazards.
These decisions become ever-higher-stakes as responsibilities accrue. Is your loyalty to your employees and investors, whom you can pay more if you charge more, or your customers, who are looking to keep more of their "surplus" and may very well already have that money allocated to other needs? You can cast such dilemmas about most choices.
Anyway, religion is the framework that has been formulated to satisfy your very natural yearning for a moral standard or compass.
But even in religion, there is no hard deterministic path. Much like law, there are some baselines, but beyond that, the decision falls back into the individual's lap. That is why regular self-examination through prayer and introspection are core components of religion.
Good luck to you.
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