What we do in general and in common is assuming that all people have and share the same values and beliefs on a variety of common things and topics. But we fail to understand that each person's values and beliefs change and continue to change as he/she evolves over a period of experiences and incidents they get invariably involved in and hence a plethora of values and beliefs come into existence .
Come the question of morality - what you think of immoral might be a perfectly moral thing to a different person given his/her set of beliefs. What we think of being immoral is actually a term we use to cordon us off from falling a ethical cliff -a high one or a low one , we have set for self assurance and in general social acceptance.
But again, there exist a number of intricate social circles we tend to become a common part of due to what we do, how we do and why we do things the way we do, which leads to have a separate identity each with a typically different set of priorities of values in each circle. For example, the choice of words we tend to use with college friends to express is much more liberal than the set of words we might use to describe the same thing with a colleague or family member. While this is socially accepted and agreeable, we fail to understand that the "I" we think of is often a careful concoction of various personalities trying to cohabitate. As time goes by, we tend to allow one personality to take over the rest given the situation, scenario and the type of people we intend to associate with at that moment.
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