The Mighty Hidden Morality Clause

The Mighty Hidden Morality Clause

Introduction

We make moral decisions every day. Some of these decisions are big and some of them are small. Not every decision that we take is right and correct and is according to the situation. There are many things that can go wrong and the moral decisions that we take prove to be incorrect for us. This makes us wonder why that are there any universal codes of the moral requirements in this world. Lenn Goodman has attempted to identify the four areas of morality and relativism where sometimes things go wrong. These four elements will be discussed in the rest of the paper.

Discussion

The first area that Goodman has identified is the genocide, germ warfare, and the politically induce famine. Genocide is uglier than a murder because it targets a group of people that belong to one society (Goodman, 2008). On the other hand, the germ warfare was used in World War I to eliminate the enemies. Politically induces famine is very harmful and is used to control population in the least developed countries such as Somalia. In this area, I agree with Goodman, because here the concept of relativism is very evident. The leaders are responsible for making all of the mentioned decisions about the act; however, it may seem to be right and moral for them, but in reality it is harmful for others.

The second area is the concept of terrorism. This involves other forms of terror, as well such as, keeping hostages and child warriors. Terrorists think that they are right when they perform terrorist activities or keep hostages. They think that they are fighting for the right purpose (as the case of Al Qaeda because they think they are fighting for their religion). This does not mean that terrorist activities ...