MY STUPID THOUGHTS

In the game of life, I think you can agree with me that there can be no victors or Losers. Life is a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that have biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased, or because they never had such functions and are classified as inanimate. 

There are many theories or suggestions on how we should live our life, things we should do and not do, stages we need to get to in life, etc. I began to question all this. I recently had cause to question one of my decisions. I had made a decision that affected other people (as most decisions do). I communicated the decision, and we planned accordingly. Then I got some more information and decided to abandon my original plans and devise a new one. This new plan failed badly and I had myself to blame for it. It was later I realized that It wasn’t the new information that fundamentally made my decision wrong. However, it did make it slightly less black and white. I started to question my morality and whether I had done the right thing. 

An older (and wiser) colleague told me something that made me realize I had made the right choice. “There’s no such thing as a bad decision,” he said. 

That sounded rather flippant to me, so we discussed it further than I realized that Choice, in philosophy is a corollary of the proposition of free will—i.e., the ability voluntarily to decide to perform one of several possible acts or to avoid action entirely. An ethical choice involves ascribing qualities such as right or wrong, good or bad, better or worse to alternatives. So how do you make good and morally sound choices or be a good person, is there a moral manual to help guild you? or is it just the idea that we must all act according to an unwavering moral code that has nothing to do with situational variables? It is said that lying, stealing, and other immoral behaviors can never be justified even if you’re lying to spare someone’s feelings or stealing a loaf of bread to feed a starving child. There is another school of thought that says you can act in a way that causes an immoral side effect, as long as your primary intention is morally sound. My question is who validates these choices?  

I feel what I need to do is to look at the consequences of my choices and how it affects me and if I can live with them. You make many choices every day. Some choices we are aware of and others are so ingrained that they have become habits. every decision has a consequence. The consequences may be small or they may be huge, depending on what the choice is. For example, if I decide to have a doughnut for breakfast one day, the consequences will be fairly mild. I will likely enjoy my breakfast very much, indulging in sweet, fluffy, fried dough goodness. My fingers might get sticky, which washing them with soap and water will cure. I might also get hungry before lunch because though the sugar rush tastes great, it does not have a lot of staying power when it comes to keeping me full. If, on the other hand, I decide to have scrambled eggs with vegetables and cheese, I am filling myself with protein. I will likely stay fuller longer and have a steadier stream of energy. Consequently, my focus will be better and I will not be starving after my morning work-out. Or if I should tell a lie to protect the feelings of someone I love, I should be willing to accept what comes after.it might be morally right, to tell the truth, but I alone understand the situation and how I battle it should be up to me, there shouldn't be a morality contest about it.