The Bridge between Personality and Morality
A person’s personalities do actually reflect on the standards of his or her morality. From the perspective of an unknown person, the morals of the man who has, say, a cruel attitude towards everybody would appear debased. In short, a person’s attitude would say anything about his moralities. Why? Because the way how he or she behaves directly connects to how well his/her judgment is.
By definition, morality means having the sense of moral conduct in the conformity (basically how well one judges the right and wrong). Many people have different ways of how they judge what something is utterly correct or what is righteously false. For example, if your mother and your girl-/boyfriend were drowning in the sea, whom would you save first? Take account that you can save only one of them, meaning you would have to sacrifice the other person. If you were the cruelest person in the world, you would not even bother to go into the sea and save either one of them. On the other hand, if you were somebody who would care his family the most, you would have saved both of them, even though you would have to sacrifice your own life. In summary, there is always a “bond”, a rope basically, that holds the traits/personalities of a person at one end and the moral codes and ethics at the other end.
But how can we prove this? What if the character traits are actually a disguise to cover up the lack of morality? Would you rather trust a person who is cruel, selfish, and ignorant to be a wiser arbiter or a person who acknowledges his faults, cares about others, and behaves in formal manners? An average person would answer with the latter one, but a moral person would not answer at all. The biggest flaw of the personality-morality-bond is that, though morality comes always with a character trait, it can be “faked”. Now, we are talking about smartness vs. intelligence; a person can be smart (smart as in getting superior grades in school), yet have a low-graded judgment, while an intelligent person, who receives low grades in academics, may have a keen perspective. However, I personally believe that morality can be changed or obtained differently by the person’s will.
By definition, morality means having the sense of moral conduct in the conformity (basically how well one judges the right and wrong). Many people have different ways of how they judge what something is utterly correct or what is righteously false. For example, if your mother and your girl-/boyfriend were drowning in the sea, whom would you save first? Take account that you can save only one of them, meaning you would have to sacrifice the other person. If you were the cruelest person in the world, you would not even bother to go into the sea and save either one of them. On the other hand, if you were somebody who would care his family the most, you would have saved both of them, even though you would have to sacrifice your own life. In summary, there is always a “bond”, a rope basically, that holds the traits/personalities of a person at one end and the moral codes and ethics at the other end.
But how can we prove this? What if the character traits are actually a disguise to cover up the lack of morality? Would you rather trust a person who is cruel, selfish, and ignorant to be a wiser arbiter or a person who acknowledges his faults, cares about others, and behaves in formal manners? An average person would answer with the latter one, but a moral person would not answer at all. The biggest flaw of the personality-morality-bond is that, though morality comes always with a character trait, it can be “faked”. Now, we are talking about smartness vs. intelligence; a person can be smart (smart as in getting superior grades in school), yet have a low-graded judgment, while an intelligent person, who receives low grades in academics, may have a keen perspective. However, I personally believe that morality can be changed or obtained differently by the person’s will.