Governor Andrew Cuomo's Morality

Governor Andrew Cuomo's Morality

In our morally ambivalent age, morality is often considered a subjective concept by which one man’s sense of immorality may be another’s lifestyle but nevertheless, even today, there are certain objective standards on which the vast majority should agree.

AllAboutPhilosophy.org explains that morality relates to a system of standards of right or wrong behavior which, in turn, incorporate moral standards, moral responsibility, or sense of conscience, and a moral identity and can be termed synonymous with ethics, principles, virtue, and goodness.

The only problem there involves the chicken or the egg dilemma, i.e., what comes first, morality or the conscience which dictates ethical values.

Some of us believe the act of abortion, taking a human life, is of its nature an act of immorality of the highest order. Enter government and agitators, and abortion becomes less a moral issue as a legal and human rights issue. Likewise with other contemporary issues, the question could be asked whether teachers abandoning their students, legislators abandoning their responsibilities, dictators acting like dictators, as well as men copulating with other men or women marrying women, are also acts of immorality of a lower order.

Because of the moral ambiguities intentionally created by those same teachers, legislators, dictators, and those men and women–they all seem to have some fabricated rationale for their actions–the only reasonable standard one can use in making moral judgments about any individual is the views of institutions to which those individuals have voluntarily committed themselves.

Essentially, if one joins a group of his own volition, one should adhere to its rules or get out, which brings us to Andrew Mark Cuomo, the 56th governor of the state of New York who has as much business being a member of the Catholic Church as a rabbi. . .
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