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Katherine Hampsten
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Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
Publication Date
Spring 2025
Keywords
Morality; Social Constructs; Right and Wrong; Ethics
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Separating our minds from the constraints of our social constructs allows us to analyze problems from a place somewhere remotely close to unbiased. However, it is only after we understand that our sense of morale [i.e. right and wrong] originated as social constructs—that is to say, right and wrong have no reason to exist in an objective world. The very concept of right and wrong have been socially constructed from the beginning; they are, in their most simplistic nature, entirely subjective. Subjective in this sense means outside of the very people who speak of the words right and wrong in this society, those very words would cease to have meaning. Again, one may ask: why do we care? To state this question in other terms; should we care?
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San Antonio, Texas
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