pop morality

[Drich]

Drich
Homosexuality and Abortion are two good examples of how pop morality has changed it's 'values' concerning these two subjects. Just one or two generations ago these two social issues were THE most Immoral thing one could do in this society. Now the most immoral thing one can do is try and prevent someone from being gay or having an abortion.

The most? I don't think so, Drich.
Good old-fashioned murder has probably always been the standard.

Drich
So my question is, if you have a heart that blindly accepts everything society tells you is 'moral'/You justify your morality by using common/pop arguments, and you have no system of checks and balances outside of what society defines as 'moral' how then are you any different than dark age Christians, North Koreans, ISIS, Taliban, Nazis, the US slave traders/owners, The US citizens who supported the wholesale slaughter of the Indians Etc??

Society doesn't determine my sense of morality. Morality is a direct of result of my capacity for empathy. That's how and why I can make the determination that certain actions of a fictional character would be immoral if he were real, as well as how I could come to the conclusion that a currently accepted societal norm is NOT okay. I don't require anyone to tell me when something is immoral. If I can visualize something happening to myself or my children and know that it would cause needless pain, grief, anguish, and/or suffering, I can reasonably assume that no one else would want it done to them.

but if not society who teach you empathy?

In my Nazi illustration Empathy was turn off for the Jews. Nazis used 'science' to 'prove' that the jew was not really human, that they were a semian form of a roach and were sapping all of the natural resources and infecting and killing the pure 'germans.' over time and through much propaganda empathy was removed from the jews because Germany sucessfully took away their humanity/human classification.

We have done similar things with unborn babies and even partially born babies. anyone we deem an active terrorist, or radicalized muslim.. So as you can see it has happened in your life right under your nose, and you gave little to no thought about it. Meaning you have no issue when the people who shot up Paris where themselves killed, or when a woman 'exercises her right to choose.' In both cases is not a human life extinguished? in both cased were they not killed in horrific ways? If you were to kill a 2 year old the way an abortion clinic kills an unborn or partially born baby would it not get a different response from you? You could even take the same child and look at a pre birth death verse a post birth death, and use the same method on the same child and one method is fine while the other deserves life in prison...

If your empathy is not being controlled by the pop culture then why is your reaction not the same? Why does propaganda deem it ok in one instance and immoral in another?

So again my question then becomes if Pop culture controls your empathy (as in the case with Nazi Germany) what can you use to determine if the culture goes too far/turn evil?