Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-92.251.228.132-20141108020915/@comment-26332923-20151030210416

CynicalEarth wrote: Platinum Luffy wrote: "Morals are what defines evil and good (...) have you lost your humanity? (...) Without morals, you'd be nothing more than useless waste of space. The law is useless. Morals define everything." You don't study anthropology, do you?

"Morality" was a latin term ("moralitas") used to define proper behaviour, what a certain group or class saw as "socially acceptable".

It's an anthropological synonym of "etiquette": the proper conduct and control of one's behaviour when interacting with a certain group or class.

Example:

Being overly polite with someone who insults you is perceived as "moral", or "socially acceptable".

Shopping for winter gear while stark naked, is not.

"Morals" are, by both anthropological definition and historical record, constructs whose very nature were distorted into establishing what you and many others perceive as "human" or "inhuman", when all it really means, is how to be a good boy/girl. No it isn't. Morality means knowing the distinction between what is right and what is wrong. I could care less about what is "socially acceptable". Morality is not "social construct" or any of that surt. Morality is something that is embedded in the nature of humans.