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How Moral Code Influences General Behaviors in a Community
- 1 Dulwich College Suzhou
- 2 Shenzhen College of International Education
- 3 Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
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Abstract
Moral code is perceived as ethics which leads individuals or groups to make choices and behave. A written, formal and consistent set of rules prescribing righteous behaviors, accepted and followed by a person or groups of people as defined. General behaviors mean how a community usually behaves and responds to a specific thing (e.g., involving morality). A community is a group of people living together like a tribe, neighbourhood or society. The formation of a moral code is intriguing and thought-provoking. For instance, the objectiveness and subjectiveness of a moral code are constantly debated, as the exactitude of measurement throughout periods (e.g., is the established moral code still moral after a hundred years?). How could we prevent the moral code from becoming the tool of guilt tripping; why would crowds follow the same moral code in one distinct? To figure out these problems, we propose some hypotheses (1) The moral code in a distinct could lower the crime rate and reduce deviance. (2) The moral code could form general behaviors shared between people in a distinct and the general behaviors could be a legacy product. (3) The moral code formed by groups of people is inherent as the intrinsic ethical traits. (4) The basis of general behaviors influenced by the moral code is due to conformity. (5) In some distinct, the moral code could lead to inappropriate or even abnormally stubborn behaviors. In the following essay, we will further elaborate on how moral code influences general community behaviours.
Keywords
moral code, general behavior, community
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Guan,N.;Song,Y.;Tan,A. (2023). How Moral Code Influences General Behaviors in a Community. Communications in Humanities Research,5,207-211.
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