My Mexican mother pushed the idea of getting married when I was younger to save my financial and social stability. Ten years ago, her advice would be genuinely thoughtful and considered steering me in the right direction. However, after the showcase of successful women on social media and congressional and presidential elections, it would be immoral of her to discourage my independence and reliance of a man. This idea implies the attention and understanding of something being moral, immoral, or amoral continuously change over time as Steven Pinker’s piece, “The Moral Instinct,” supports. Additionally, Pinker infers exuding morality is awarded but the concept of something being moral depends on the perspective and experience of a person.
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However, a topic does not need to reach a level of attention for others to understand certain actions are inhuman/wrong. For instance, the recent ending of the former president, Barack Obama 's executive order of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. People throughout the country rallied and defended undocumented people, but this shouldn’t be first time news; the concept of exclusion for personal gain is immoral. There should not have to be a situation in which many people are affected for others to stand up for an issue.
However, “Many afflictions have been reassigned from payback for bad choices to unlucky misfortunes,” reasons Pinker for the shift to amoralization. If an issue becomes too broad people’s instinct to help the situation slowly fades. For example, Pinker mentions, sexually transmitted diseases changed to sexually transmitted infections this further negates the root of the problem of unprotected sex and normalizes the issue. In other words, the immoral concept becomes accepted and acknowledged by others to an extent it is no longer frowned