Well THAT'S interesting...

I know this is the most I've posted in a long time, but in (still) rereading past posts, I found an interesting... not "contradiction"... I dunno what you'd call it; irony maybe? In any event, I found a post back when I broke up with my g/f last summer, and we had disagreed on the notion of morality. She thought that other opinions shouldn't matter, and I thought that individual morality was potentially dangerous because Hitler would then be as "good" of a person as you or I. However, recently, I've promoted the concept of an individual sense of purpose and morality.

A-HA! And I just realized the difference; I just realized why I seem to be on both sides of the issue. I don't think that an individual sense of "right and wrong" is acceptable because, again, sociopaths would be 100% in the right. HOWEVER, I do believe that an individual sense of "right and wrong FOR ME" is okay, and by that I mean what is best for me. I don't proclaim the choices I make to be 'right' just because I think they are; I simply do them because I feel like they're what I'm intended to do. Maybe they're right, and maybe they're wrong. Maybe it does depend on others' point of view. ... Well, I thought I realized the difference, anyway... I dunno... Am I making a proper distinction? There should be a universal understanding of morality in the sense of how we deal with others (perhaps "ethics" more than "morality;" let's lose the religious connotation), but there should never be a universal sense of "this is what I'm supposed to do." Does that make sense?