Bystander's Ability To Make Moral Choices

Morals are a set of beliefs or choices that one would define which is right or wrong. When one says that a moral action requires the ability to make moral choices is similar to how we make our own choices. For something to happen within our lives, we must decide whether to initiate the action or to refrain from it. In other words, we would either do or do not. An action cannot be initiated by itself as it must have another force behind it. This concept is similar to a game, one must input commands in order to move forward. Those commands are made from the gamer itself. All in all, for an action to be set in motion there must be a driving force behind it, whether it be human or animal nothing will be set in motion if there are no choices to choose from.
P2. The ability to make moral choices requires an individual to pick between two or more mutually exclusive actions with an outcome. A moral choice is the concept of choosing possibilities with an outcome, whether it be bad or good. Imagine an outcome where a robber told a bystander to kill a victim or the bystander would die. There are many choices involved in here. The robber can either chose to assault the victim …show more content…
He or she has moral choices because taking the life of another is taboo within our society which is wrong (set up by society) or do something else. A reason why a moral action requires a morally wrong choice, is because in order for something to be deemed as morally wrong, there must be a positive belief. For example, in our society we believe that all life is valuable which we deem right therefore a wrong would be to curse life and seek to destroy it. There cannot be a right if there is no wrong. For example, yin and yang is a balance between good and bad. Not everything can be positive in the world and that’s why there is also evil to balance this