I believe that everyone is free to make a choice, a choice that is true to oneself. I also believe that the decision about what to do should be based on what you believe is important, not on what your friends, family, or society argues. As an existentialist I believe that we, as humans can never know if we made the right choice. It is important for us to make mistakes and learn from them; it is throughout personal experience that we learn what is actually moral and immoral. It’s important for us to make and judge our own moral choices, I believe in authenticity and how people should make decisions based on what he believes is moral and not think on the surroundings. We must move beyond judging our actions according to reason or the standards of society, we eliminate the thought of “what might people think” or “what will they say” and become accountable only to the judgment of God. Even though we are free to make our own moral choice, we must take for account that it is God and only God who has the right criteria of what is actually moral. We might make the choice of aborting, but we must remember that it is not moral under Gods criteria; he doesn’t approve on killing a child. Choices must be made; it all depends on how you want to live your life.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
(Alejandra Handal)
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I agree with your idea that we must do what is important to us and judge our own moral choices. Nevertheless, I think that we should not act upon any God's criteria. The only judgment we shall receive must come from ourselves only. I believe that we should do what we think it's right. If you feel that you should abort, do it.
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The most beautiful thing about being a human being is free will, we are free to make our own choices as you said. You also mentioned that what to do should be based on what you believe is important, not on what your friends, family, or society argues, which is very true. But you do point out something very illogical in your argument, and that is that God has the right criteria about everything, and the we must obey his will over everything else because it is he who will judge us. This argument causes a contradiction in your very own argument because if humans are allowed to make their own free choices, they should not care about anything else, not even what "God" believes to be right or wrong, having the freedom to make our own decisions means that we should not be subject to our mind being manipulated by anything, and that includes religion.
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