The expectations of society are all you have to work with, in the formation of
your character.
The problem is, every person is brought up in a range of societies with sometimes very different expectations and moralities. Society is not homogenous. We have, among many others, the society of their family, their church, their cultural and racial heritage, their peer group, their football team, their school, their college (where in most cases any thinking to the right of Jesse Jackson is considered antisocial), their country (usually the last society to be recognized). Are all of these societies moral in their own ways? If they make conflicting claims, where is the person to go to sort those out? |
