FCI Staff Writer Sacramento 
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May 31, 2023,
Unprecedented is a word often used to describe current events.
In terms of drought.
In terms of rising waters around the world.
In terms of the threat of a global nuclear war.
In terms of school and mass shootings in the United States.
In terms of hard working, ordinary citizens becoming refugees because of conflict and drug wars in their home country.
Unprecedented indeed.
What about human behavior?
In terms of amoral behavior, is that becoming unprecedented as well?
Amoral thinking leads to amorality.
Amorality is an absence of, indifference towards, disregard for, or incapacity for morality.
Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).
Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal.
Morality may also be specifically synonymous with “goodness” or “rightness”.
Amorality would be the opposite.
Some simply refer to it as a case of not being moral or immoral.
Amoral should not be confused with immoral, which refers to an agent doing or thinking something they know or believe to be wrong.
Like stealing.
Like committing adultery.
Like cheating.
Morality and amorality in humans and other animals is a subject of dispute among scientists and philosophers.
If morality is intrinsic to humanity, then amoral human beings either do not exist or are only deficiently human, a condition sometimes described as moral idiocy or anti-social behavior disorder. On the other hand, if morality is extrinsic to humanity, then amoral human beings can both exist and be fully human, and as such be amoral by default.
From our view, amoral thinking increases when children are not raised properly.
Define properly.
Good question.
We’re from Texas in another time period and we’ve seen the world before, compared to now.
Properly?
You marry to build a beautiful family, do not commit adultery nor engage in wife beating and teach your children that they are a part of a larger community of relatives and neighbors who they have a responsibility to care about and be good to.
Make sense so far?
Self-control in speech and behavior is taught as well as honor and respect.
Loyalty to spouse and parents are paramount, even when they become old and sick.
It is not complicated.
We appear to live in a very different world than that. Wouldn’t you agree?
From our view, amoral thinking people are often about self.
Completely.
Acquiring material possessions are prominent in their thinking, no matter how it harms others. Men are winners and losers based upon how much money they make. Who they are internally as a person is not as important.
Amoral people tend to care little about human suffering. As long as it doesn’t happen to them, then there’s no problem.
They tend to do the right think only for show. For image.
If there were no consequences to their actions, they would behave even worse.
There is an intriguing movie that speaks to that.
Infinity Pool is a 2023 science fiction horror film written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth and Cleopatra Coleman.
The film follows a struggling writer and his wife on vacation who, after an accident, discover the local country’s dark culture.
The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the atmosphere and Cronenberg’s direction but also criticism of its plot and storyline.
About that storyline.
Novelist James Foster and his wife Em spend time at a resort in the fictional seaside country of Li Tolqa, where a local festival is underway.
The couple’s chronic marital strife is exacerbated when Gabi, a fan of the only novel James has published to date, invites them to spend time with her and her husband Alban.
The four have dinner and decide to spend the next day driving in the countryside, even though they have been warned that tourists are to remain on the resort compound at all times.
Sounds like amoral behavior to us. You know what the rules are, but as long as you don’t get caught, you will violate those rules anyway.
After a long day of sunbathing and cooking, the tourists embark on a drunken drive back to their hotel. En route, James accidentally runs over a local man, killing him. Gabi insists that they cannot call the police, as the country is corrupt and they will not be safe.
More amoral behavior and thinking.
Moral? We made a mistake. Let’s do the right think.
Amoral. We made and terrible mistake that harmed someone else, let’s try and escape the consequences of our actions.
The next day, James is arrested and is told that the penalty for his crime is death at the hand of the dead man’s firstborn son.
Then the real amoral fun, so to speak, begins.
And so it goes.
The master reviewers at rogerebert.com enlightened us, “However, this country also has a way out, a cloning process for the extremely wealthy that will create another James to be murdered while the original one watches.
What it does to James and all the other rich people at the resort is to essentially remove any sort of moral compass. If there’s no consequence, why not steal, screw, and murder your way through a hedonistic lifestyle?”
Intriguing.
Increasingly, that appears to be much of the world we are living in now.
Will it continue to spread like a bad virus? Is there anything we can do as a human species to contain it or possibly find methodologies to reduce it.
We sense not.
Our experience has taught us that the instilling of morality begins in the home and if we continue to raise generations of children who feel they are entitled to everything, can they become parents who instill traditional moral behaviors?
What say you?
Us?
We prefer not to say.
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