Reponse to: Week 7. Moral Interactions

In reading your blog post, I took the time to reflect on some of the social situations I have been in, where I would tend to behave differently depending on the moral context.  Your example of church, as a social situation where it is not moral to swear, made me think of my childhood as a sort of conditioning for how I behave depending on the situation.  Growing up I went to church every Sunday, which meant that at a young age I was taught how I was expected to behave in that particular space.  The interesting thing is, I don’t remember a specific time where I was told, “Claire, this is how you are meant to behave when we are at church. You are supposed to sit quietly and listen. You are not meant to answer questions, or put your hand up like in school. You are to speak to the other people in the church before and after the service, but not during”.  These were all things that I must have observed, or were implied, and I automatically followed them.  Those were the church codes that I was expected to know and abide by, but not necessarily understand.  There are a number of social situations we find ourselves in where we are expected to behave a certain way, and sometimes we don’t even question why it is that way, we just follow.