Do you ever feel like your sense of morality serves no other purpose other than to impede your enjoyment of life?
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Anonymous
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No, I don't have that feeling. But I've talked to people who seem to have that feeling. I think a lot of people have been "programmed" from childhood with a lot of distorted ideas about what morality is that prevent them from enjoying life -- they basically feel guilty for just about anything. That's one of the downsides of some forms of religion: trying to control people with lots of heavy rules and stern sermons. If you expose children to a lot of that, they really can "freeze up" emotionally as adults and have trouble functioning normally and enjoying life. I would say my brother falls in that category: he's so hen-pecked and self-correcting in his attempts to do God's Will all the time that he seems unable to just settle down and ever have a good time. There is such a thing as right and wrong. There are consequences for immoral behavior. But the simplistic and fascist rules that get pounded into the heads of some children aren't morality, they're just cultural conditioning that damages the person's moral development by replacing clear thinking with automated tapes. It's not good stuff.
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