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[celinajoy2013-blog-blog]

Moral Belief

My moral belief is that we were all created equally.  I think the foundation of this belief is that I've had personal experiences with racism, and my father's family has had even more.  My moral belief has been shaped by my thoughts of racism being a horrible and ugly thing.  My core belief isn't soley based on emotion, and can be thought out logically.  Hopefull with my moral belief, I can learn not only to treat people how I would like to be treated, but to not think of people as any less of a person because of how they look, or where they come from. 

[kevinevin]

Moral Principle

"No pain, no gain." This clichéd phrase is one of the morals I believe I live by. Although it's obvious that I don't apply this mentality to everything I do, I have used it and I've seen it work. Applying this mentality that if you really want something, you have to work hard for it in education and sports have brought many people success. The satisfaction of being rewarded for grueling work is also a plus. 

[vicfawaz-blog-blog]

My Core Moral Belief

Treat others as they want to be treated. A slight spin on the original moral, but a necessary one. Everyone wants to be treated like an individual, and not just like a part of larger group. Each and every person has a different personality and emotions that should be respected. For example, If i was the President of a country, people would assume that i was very formal and professional and act emotionless and dull around me. I'm sure that not all Presidents are dull people, and would like to have fun on occasion. Essentially, my aim is to allow everyone to be treated like an individual. Keep people's unique thoughts and personalities in mind whenever your around them.

[ginnyv-blog-blog]

My Core Moral Belief

My core moral belief is to live life without regrets. I want to have a fun, but I don't want to have fun by doing stupid things. I want to find the courage to try new things in life, but be able to find the ability to know if its good or bad. I want to have an exciting life without negativly affecting other people. I want people to be able to experience fun even when I am having fun.

[sharjil333]

Honesty

My core moral belief is honesty. I picked honesty because one childhood moment in particular left me with a hatred of dishonesty. When I was seven years old, I was in  Oklahoma, and I was attending a private Islamic school. I had already met a couple of friends who I was close to. However, one boy, who was in first grade acted overly nice to me that year. I didn't talk to him much, and since I was still sort of new to the school, I was eager to be his friend. Around that time, my dad surprised me with a Gameboy Color, the latest and greatest new gadget. At the time, this was very expensive and I am grateful that my dad bought it for me. My grandma also took me to GameStop, and let me choose a few games for it, each one costing around $30. At the time, I was the happiest kid ever. I was telling my new "friend" about this and he excitedly asked if he could borrow my games. I was happy I could do something for him, so I thought I could let him borrow it for a day or two. Then he told me he needed to borrow my Gameboy because he lost his. My dad caught me putting it in my backpack and put it away. I told the boy since he can't play the games, he should give them back to me. He actually gave me an evil laugh and told me I would not see them again. He was right. Few days later his whole family moved to Texas.

I was extremely upset from that incident. I spend hours crying in my room. I did not tell my parents, even now, about what happened because I knew it was my fault for trusting my games with a boy I barely talked to before. I was ashamed that I lost the games my Grandma spent her hard-earned money for. She had saved up money for a long time so that she could buy gifts for my sister and I. Luckily, my dad stopped me from taking the Gameboy to school or he would have stolen it too! I was honest with the boy but he was comepletely dishonest with me. From that point on, I valued honest as my core moral belief, because I discovered how much dishonesty could hurt.

[vkhatri-blog]

Moral Principle

My basic moral principle is to be accepting of other people. This includes treating them with respect and not annoying them about their flaws, because I know I have my own. This is my basic moral principle because I know there are some who won't accept me because of their views on Islam and I know what it feels like to be excluded. Sometimes it's hard to do this because I'm impatient, but I hope I can accept everyone.

[j-berg]

My moral is to treat others how I want to be treated. I follow this because it eliminates stereotypes, by stopping judgment and giving everyone a “clean slate”. When someone treats me without judgment and with respect I give them my full attention. First impressions are important, when someone treats me respectfully they gain credibility in my eyes.  Everyone deserves an equal opportunity, and if I fulfill that example then others may follow me. I try to have the integrity to always follow my key moral, but that sometimes does not happen. Sometimes I stereotype or judge people by their appearance, instead of allowing their personalities to be my first impression of them.

[live-vividly]

Core Moral Belief

Responsibility: Do what you are supposed to do.

That just a general overview of my core moral belief, it can be broken down into further specifics that help guide my life. First off, act with self discipline. Self discipline is the product of continued willpower, hard work, and persistence. Another critical part of acting with self discipline is being self-motivated, even when one's circumstances seem to call for giving up. Secondly, responsibility demands thought prior to action. With this comes the knowledge that there are consequences for one's actions. Finally, accountability is huge for me and perhaps the most obvious point when one thinks of responsibility because without accountability and consistency it would be impossible to be responsible. 

Now I obviously don't follow this to a point but I do try my best to keep it at the front of my mind in everything that I do. 

[gshark25]

My Moral

My moral is: Respect other's beliefs.

I believe that all people should respect other's beliefs regardless of if they agree with them or not.  Just because I do not agree with someone's beliefs does not mean that I can not respect them.  Obviously this moral has its limits like if somebody's beliefs involve killing or injuring people, but within all practical bounds people should respect other's beliefs.  This applies to religious beliefs especially.  A large number of religious people get very angry with people who do not share their belief system.  I do not believe in God and i have had many people become angry with me when they find this out.  I respect the beliefs of everybody no matter if they are backed up by logic or if they are not (like religion).  I find it ridiculous and unfair that somebody who believes in a mystical being, who is not backed up by any evidence, is going to tell me that my beliefs are wrong when my beliefs are backed up by evidence.  I have the politeness to respect other's beliefs and others should have the politeness to respect mine.

[jessicacreech-blog]

Morals

Originally, my moral was to treat others the way I would like to be treated. However, when I began to think about what this meant I thought about how often this could be misinterpreted. Everyone is different and there is no way that I could take every situation and make it into something where I as well as the person I am with would be happy. With this being said I also realized that my morals also involved situations where I don't have to interact with people. This is why I considered my original moral a rough draft and revised it. My revised moral is now to act in a way that a younger version of my would want to look up to. Or to act in a way that I would want my little brother to look up to. Basically, as I have gone through highschool and even throughout my whole life there are people that I look up to. Usually, these people are in fact good role models. However, once I got to highschool I realized some of the role models that I had chosen to look up to weren't truly people that I would want to end up like. My little brother is the same age right now as I was when I started to realize this. I know he is going through a lot of the same things I did and he is realizing many of the same things I did. That is why my moral is to act in a way that I would want younger me or my little brother to look up to. This isn't to say I am perfect. I am very bad at showing my emotions so usually I bottle them up and then they come out at the wrong time. I know I need to work on my composure and decision making before I can say that I am a good role model for kids to look up to. I do know that everyone makes mistakes and I am on the right path to being a good role model.

[crmarshalek-blog]

Morals

"To try to respect and accept everyone," that's my motto. I believe that this is my core belief because I've always tried to treat everyone equally, and try not to come to hasty conclusions about anyone. Of course it's never easy to respect everyone, especially those who refuse to respect or accept us, thus the reason I start my motto with "to try." It's not exactly the best motto to emulate, but unlike a lot of people out there in the world, at least I try my best to respect and accept everyone.

[tnowinski]

My Moral Belief

My moral belief is to treat other respectfully. The reason for this is because if I treat other people with respect, more often than not they will treat me with respect. This is the easiest way for me to be treated the way I want to be treated. Obviously if a person is consistently disrespectful to me I have to draw the line on how respectfully I treat them or else I probably would be taken advantage of. Also, by treating others with respect I am doing my part in making the world a better place to live in.

[erikkoberstein-blog]

Moral

Treating everyone how I want to be treated is the way I want to live my life. This is the way I want to live my life because if I treat everyone with respect and the way I want to be treated then I should be treated the same as them. If I treat someone the way I want to be treated there is no reason why I shouldn't be treated the way I want to be. I know I don't want to be treated poorly and that is why I try to treat everyone nicely. Nobody ever wants to be treated badly, that is why I try to treat everyone the way I want to be treated.

[mate-ro]

Morals, Morals, Morals

I want to say that my core moral belief is do things for yourself, not for other people; but, I dont think that covers exactly what I mean.

In other words, doing things for yourself means doing things because you want to do them, not because you want to live up to the expectations that people have for you. Do things even if other people don't "approve." Do things that you want to do even if they go against the "image" that people have created for you. Be the person, not the personna.

I guess what I want to say is simply, just be yourself.

[melissagolemb-blog]

Moral

It is hard for me to come up with morals that i live by. This one, very cliche, but made the most sense to me : Don't Be Fake. This could go in terms of being fake to other people, or being fake to yourself. I know countless amount of people who act one way around me, but when they're with others (depending on who the others are) they turn into somebody else. It is very irritating because then i don't know who the real you is. People should at least owe it to themselves to be their true self all the time, and not try and change your persona to fit the people surrounding you, otherwise you'll never know if people like the real you, or just the one you are trying to be.