Moral Conviction

It will be corruption and greed at the highest level that will bring down America and it starts with the President of the United States and his moral conviction in running the country.  
 Unfortunately, personal  moral convictions  can be washed out by different sets of moral values; depending on which religious group (Catholic or Protestant) or political party (Republican, IND, Democrat) you belong. 

.."To apply the golden rule adequately, we need knowledge and imagination. We need to know what effect our actions have on the lives of others. And we need to be able to imagine ourselves, vividly and accurately, in the other person's place on the receiving end of the action. With knowledge, imagination, and the golden rule, we can progress far in our moral thinking...." 

I believe that if we apply the Golden Rule of empathy to our actions; minus all the rules and regulations of religious and political groups, I think we would have a better understanding of 'right and wrong' without limiting ourselves to the restrictive beliefs of all these other groups. 

It's really easy knowing the difference between good and bad; it's harder to apply them when they are all mixed up with everyone else's moral convictions.

While your God is telling you 'thou shalt not kill', your commanding officer is telling you to shoot a suicidal terrorist in the act.
You could say to yourself: If I were the terrorist, would I want to be shot? Your answer would be: No, I would rather be blown to smithereens. But of course, those are the terrorist's religious moral convictions, not yours.


You already know it's a bad thing that the terrorist is doing.  He is imposing his beliefs on others.


You would be doing the terrorist a favor by shooting him because he is too brainwashed to know what "smithereens"really means. Thereby, going against both of your religious convictions: Yours, by killing him; and his, by not following through on a suicide bombing.


If you applied your religious beliefs, " thou shalt not kill", than you allow the terrorist to kill you. 


But upon your death,  if you immediately apply the Golden Rule and empathize with the terrorist by switching to his religious convictions; you can, at least, be snuggling with 72 virgins.

President Obama moral conviction is to 'spread the wealth', not his wealth, of course. How can he spread the wealth when he needs the wealth, himself, to win an election? 

 Where is his moral convictions placed while people are out of work? On the golf course?
 He could raise enough campaign money to start a manufacturing company so people can work, or he can use the billion dollars he plans to raise to advertise about 'how great he is as a president.' 
Will he ask people who don't have jobs to donate money so he can travel around the country talking about himself?

Thomas Jefferson whose personal moral conviction was that: "all men are created equal," was in direct conflict with the Virginian and Southern moral convictions of the day ....."except for the slaves," which he freed only upon his death.

Can we stay true to our moral convictions, throughout our life, knowing they evolve around each circumstance in which we find ourselves?