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Morals are NEVER black and white, and that's why it worries me that some people think it's okay to impose their moral code on everyone else. Even the things that would think would be most simplistic are pretty complicated when you get to the heart of it. For example, murder is wrong, right? But what about murder in self-defense? What about manslaughter? There are belief systems out there which decree that it's wrong to kill a fly just like it's wrong to kill a man. Is it okay to kill an animal? If you are going to starve to death if you don't eat it? Okay if you kill it humanely, but not if you butcher it? What about cases where you're killing yourself -- should an attempted suicide be treated like an attempted murder? Is assisted suicide okay? Should a woman be allowed to kill her unborn child, seeing as how it is an extension of her body? Or IS it an extension of her body?
You ask a hundred different people these questions and you will get a hundred different interpretations. So how do we decide exactly what is right and what is wrong?
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