Moral Values and Prejudice

“… People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite” Nelson Mandela.

Prejudice

Over the course of history, whether it’s racial, sexual bias, religious, social class or other, prejudice has impacted the victim and in many cases, severely, at the least it makes a person feel less than fully human, normally it’s caused because of the lack of education or understanding of others.

Sometimes an event has triggered a fear or hatred which can make people dislike or mistrust a certain group. Commonly, the prejudice goes further, impacting a larger group of people, who have no link to the original event which prejudice may have been formed through.

When the heart and soul of a person is undervalued, their self-esteem suffers and commonly, they stop trying to improve themselves.

Commonly prejudice will lead to bullying and other forms of discrimination.

These create an atmosphere of fear for what might happen at any moment and fear for what the future might hold.

In extreme cases this can lead a person to take their own life.

At its worst extremes, prejudice can lead to genocide, as demonstrated during World War Two, with the extermination of 6 million Jewish people.

This is an example of what can happen when prejudice is allowed to develop unchallenged in society.

The consequences of prejudice and discrimination can lead to individuals and entire communities feeling vulnerable, frightened and worthless. At worst, the result can be death.

When “prejudice” is a forced purposeful judgement of somebody, without any facts or truth to back this up, it becomes gaslighting.

The impacts of gaslighting are no lesser than those of prejudice.

The difference is that those who are “forcing” a set of beliefs on others about a person (without any grounds) are doing so willingly and purposefully.

In this instance, the real reasons for attempting to ostracise and damage a person come from a place of fear and control; a need to silence the person and discredit them.

To destroy another person and then forcibly discredit them, denying them of the truth behind the actions you took against them in the first place is ABSOLUTE TYRANNY.

In life, we will all, at some point or another and to varying degrees, find ourselves fighting for 'justice' - to fight for what is morally correct, is to continue to shape society in the right way moving forwards.

It is critical to uphold moral values.