A young person said to me recently that every decision is a moral decision. I'm inclined to think that this is obsessive, and that a lot of decisions are fairly neutral--but that could be because I am much older, and have already excluded anything that bothers me from any options I might consider.
I have heard the idea that all decisions are moral before, as most people have. Something that I think is being lost is the idea of a decision being social--as in "how would this decision affect other people?" This got a bad reputation among the hippies in the 1960's and 1970's, and is still frowned on today by many--wondering what the neighbors think. But a considerate person and a good citizen ought to wonder what the neighbors think. The neighbors wouldn't, or shouldn't be thinking of your decisions unless they are living with the consequences of them--as something they can hear or see. As my grandmother and Kant said, "what would the world be like if everyone did that?"
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