- Why do I have to conform to another person’s views on what I believe is right for me?
- Why can’t I identify with what is best pleasing and conformable to me?
- What is the yardstick for measuring the rectitude of the acts of nations?
- As a fully-grown man, why can’t I identify as a young girl?
Many times, we hear such questions being thrown with an air of victimhood or even a sort of superiority complex. This makes us ask if it is licit to impose one’s personal idea of morality on others.
In a society that is largely characterized by an exaggerated idea of liberty and freedom, we should take care not to infringe on another person’s liberty. For example, if a 40 yr old male maniac suddenly believes he is a 12 yr old girl and identifies as such, then it’s going to be a real problem allowing my 12 yr old daughter to make friends with him in school.
Therefore, for the sake of cohabiting in society, there should be a sort of yardstick that delimits our moral rights and freedom since personal freedom will definitely overflow into the rights of others.
Moreover, where personal freedom is not specified there will always be a problem because man always lives in society. It was Aristotle who said that man is by nature a social being who can’t live alone, irrespective of others.
Therefore, there must be some sort of standard by which morality and freedom must be delimited. This is what we call an objective standard and it is given by GOD. Let us look at it this way: it is logical and better than the creator of human nature should say and dictate for us the proper way it should work, if not a personal or subjective standard would make us victims of each other.
