Personal Narrative: My Moral Perspective

I never really thought to deeply into my own moral perspective before taking this class. I have always tried to do things that are in the best interest of my family and I. So when we first talked about the different types of moral perspectives I identified myself as a moral subjectivist. Something that is always said where I’m from is “get it how you live”. This simply means do whatever you have to do to survive. Forget consequences, don’t worry about how your actions impact others, and only focus on how to can improve and protect your own situation/ interests. To an extent this is how I actually began to live my life. Regardless of what anyone was doing, I was going to make sure I got mine. I’ve stolen countless things without remorse, and was actually heralded by friends because of it. It was called a come up, the American dream right? I loved to make something out of nothing when I was young. The older I get, the more I realize that what I was doing was wrong. I was a complete subjective relativist growing up because if you …show more content…
My answer is that we have to be able to look at all things relatively, while following an objective guideline. By that I mean that murder is wrong, but certain situations such as self-defense can make it acceptable. That is in essence the strength of moral relativism. With subjectivism we have the ability to look at things from all angles, with all circumstances in mind. This is the only fair way to judge anything because without it people would find themselves persecuted for doing things that a great consensus of people would have done in the same situation. While still holding people responsible for their actions, subjectivism also allows morals to have a reasonable range of freedom. Moral relativism doesn’t mean we can do whatever we want, but it does protect us whenever we a caught in precarious situations and forced to make a tough moral