What is Ethics?
Ethics is a collection of moral philosophies pertaining to human nature and behavior. In other words, morals are behavioral activities that exercise the Conscience of people. In Dohgon Spirituality, which I sourced to create the HERU Interface of Black Consciousness, the basic morals are Fairness, Equity, and Accountability. Religious people follow commandments, while secular people depend on Laws.
The problem with ethics is that they can vary depending on the Judge. For instance; in Law, a judge hands down a sentence and the state carries out the punishment. When citizens disagree with the judgement the judge simply says that he or she is simply interpreting the Law. But who made the Law? Laws are made by a collective of supposedly Ethical Lawmakers in society. In simple terms, people elect politicians to represent them and the politicians make the Laws that control everyone’s behavior.
Spiritually speaking, a God is an imaginary Judge and it is people again who engage in judgement based on the ethics of what they believe. The impartiality of a God is important in this equation because individuals are known to be flawed. The most important question in this scenario is; if God is imaginary then where do morals come from? Religion claims to be the source of ethics but who didn’t know that killing or any other one of the 10 commandments were wrong before religion said that God said they were?
Simply knowing that something is wrong isn’t enough to deter most people so another form of deterrence had to be implemented, which targets the deepest desires of human psychology. That deterrence is the thought of falling out of favor with God, being left out of Heaven and cut off from eternal life.
Where does Ethics come from?
The real source of ethics is the human Conscience but a more important question should be, where does human conscience come from? Human conscience is the Great Spirit that is the Universe acting on the abstract energy field or (Soul) of humans. There are only two sides to the personality of people just like there are two sides to the human Brain. The Left Brain is Rational and the Right Brain is Emotional; therefore, the two sides of a Soul are Desire and Conscience.
If happiness is all that’s important to people, then they will be Desire Dependent and Right Brained. They will also be susceptible to unethical and immoral behavior because they will dismiss their Conscience in favor of the Ideologies that bond them with other people of the same Race, Nationality, Religion, and so on.
