Moral Values

1. Moral values are stand of good and evil which governs an individual's behavior and choices. Individual's moral may derive from varieties of factors such as the society, government and religion. Moral values are basis on what we make decision right or wrong. Religion is another source of moral values. Most religion have list of dos and don'ts or set of codes in which individual practicing that religion should follow.

In short, moral values are the rules in which we make decisions about right and wrong, should and shouldn't, good and bad. Moral values also tell us which are more or less important, which is useful when we have trade off meeting one value over another.

On the other hand, moral principles have greater social elements to value and tend to have very broad acceptance. Morals are far more about good and bad other than value. Thus, we judge others more strongly on moral than values. For example a person can be described as immoral, yet there is no word for them not values. Moral principles involve certain aspects accepted by the community.

Practicing noble values it challenges and reasons as to the action or conduct of the individuals. What is moral is very subjective, in short is the awareness of proper and improper conduct and what to follow and what to discard.

The important of practicing moral conduct is that it will help individuals to acquire those virtues or moral habits that will help them individually and live good lives and at the same time become productive, contributing members of their communities.

Besides that, practicing good moral values also helps to contribute to social cohesion of a community.