What Role Does Morality Play In Our Identity

Identity is a word many people view differently. But in my opinion identity means who you are and how others perceive you as a person inside and out. It includes all the aspects like appearance, ethnicity, religion, virtues, you're decisions and morals. Morality is a huge role in creating your identity because I personally think it’s the most important one. Moral’s are the key to everything, the key to good friendships, relationships, habits and more. A unmoral human compared to a moral human is a big difference, when you don't have morals everything is a ripple effect. As a person with no morals you are repeatedly practicing you're vices and you're bad character traits and the more you do that the more it becomes a natural instinct, which can be detrimental to your life. …show more content…
Morality and our values are the core of one's personality, I think it makes up 80% of our identity too, so one would think that people would take it seriously but you would be surprised. With having morals you are viewed by other people as a very respectable person who values other people and themselves, and with a person who is immoral, people tend to be hesitant because of past decisions that person made or how they treat people. Being moral means knowing what is good and bad behaviour and the distinction between right and wrong decisions. We as humans make decisions everyday, and with those decisions it builds our identity. It’s like a formula to being a morally good person. Good behaviour+being ethical=Being a moral person. Whereas bad behaviour+being unethical= immoral person. An example, from my own life would be of an old friend. She doesn’t see the wrong in having multiple boyfriends at once, which I think is very