Impulse Topic 1

Talk about idea-ception. With that, I kick off an impulse post about a random topic, which happens to be part of yet another impulse series I'm about to do, yay!

Morality -

I figured I'd talk about this in lieu of the several somewhat controversial headline news plastered all over the local newspaper. Alternatively, you may view them here:

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As tempted as I am to share my own views and then end the post, I'll try going at this from another angle; my mother's. Being your typical conservative Christian Asian housewife, my mother slammed these people without batting an eyelid, branding them as immoral and gross; and I don't blame her. Growing up in an environment where the very mention of sex usually comes with a slightly disgusted grunt or a shrill "ARE YOU INSANE?!", my mother avoided taboo topics like the plague; so naturally, these people are therefore people of the plague and should be shunned too.

Perhaps that would be a view shared amongst many Singaporeans, but if any of you readers know me, my screws are scattered across the planet.

I realise many people who talk about morality don't really like to elaborate on it, simply because it's impossible to. There isn't a definite standard of morality, like if-you-do-this-you-are-immoral kind of thing. Many believe that black and white exists independently without the possibility that an area can exist between them where their boundaries merge. I believe that morality is just like that, because everyone's standard is different. Unlike laws where what's right or wrong (again, defined by fallible humans) are clear as day, there's no governing body to oversee the thin lines of morality.

Perhaps, for the parties involved in those cases; their only mistake was to do it here, where conservative eyes are on them, eager to judge.

Not so crazy as it seems anymore does it?
Then again, a nutcase doesn't really know he's insane anyway.

Sooooo... were they right or wrong?
I might think that they have nothing to be ashamed of, while you might think otherwise.

But we really don't know.. do we?