Morality is simple
- Being a moral person means having a set of principles and trying to live up to those principles even when it's difficult or may cost you. If you discard a principle when it's inconvenient, it's not a principle.
- Being a moral person means that when you fail to live up to those principles you feel bad about it. You will almost certainly fail to live up to your principles, but, boys and girls, you have got to feel it. If you don't you're a sociopath.
- Being a moral person means expressing those principles in words and adhering to the generally accepted meanings of those words. Principles don't count if you've decided to use a complete horseshit meaning of the words because morality is fundamentally about your interactions with others and we all know what words mean. Otherwise you're lying.
- You are not a moral person if your principles of behavior only apply to other people and not yourself.
- Saying that you accept Jesus Christ as your savior makes you a Christian. It does not make you a moral person. Following Christs teachings in a moral way will make you a moral person.
- Morality has nothing to do with whether you get into heaven after you die. Morality is about how you behave here on this Earth. Morality is about how you interact with living people for the decades you have on this planet. I don't give a shit if you got into the kingdom of heaven. Even if every religion in the world is correct about afterlife, your affect on the people around you happens here and now.
- Impossible principles don't count. Creating a moral framework that you can't possibly live up to is an attempt to seem moral, but requires no practical accountability.
