Normally and very rarely it does not occur, our actions, our sayings, generate opinions and evaluations of an ethical nature around us, we even carry out them ourselves regarding the actions of those around us. With this we want to express that it turns out to be very common for everything we do and say to generate moral and ethical appreciations in others.
However, these considerations are usually rooted and based on traditions, customs and customs that have a long history in the society in question, on the experiences transmitted by close people and also on even more widespread social conventions that, for example, are still shared among different cultures.
Formally, it is called moral judgment to that mental act that affirms or denies the moral value in the face of a certain situation or a behavior of which we are witnesses, that is, the moral judgment that is given as a result will specifically pronounce on the presence or absence of ethics in a fact or attitude.
Moral judgments are possible thanks to the moral sense that each human being possesses. This moral sense is the result of the schemes, norms and rules that we have been acquiring and learning throughout our lives. Through our moral judgment we can establish whether an action lacks ethical principles or is contrary to them.
In the first instance, it will be the family, parents, grandparents, who will transmit this information and precepts to us, then the educational institutions in which we intervene and who are left in charge of our training will come into play, and ultimately the environment. environment in which we will develop, which will also tell us and indicate what is right, what is wrong, will guide us on the good, on the bad, among other issues.
Also and today more than ever, the media, as opinion makers, are fundamental at the request of the formation of moral judgments. Many people overly appreciate the valuations that are issued by them and end up echoing them. For this reason, it is important that those who work in them are aware of this and responsible when communicating.
Then, when the case of having to make a moral judgment in a certain circumstance, all that baggage, automatically reviewing our own experience as a consequence of the request to express a judgment, will immediately make available to us all those teachings, beliefs and considerations about what good and bad, that both the family, the school and society have been teaching us and that will help us determine if that act or behavior is framed in something good, bad, acceptable or not.
From this it follows that education and the values that have been instilled in us since childhood will be fundamental and the basis on which we can determine when something is right or wrong.
Always, through moral judgment, what is intended to be done is to try to arrive at the truth of something.
Thus, the definition of something as morally good or bad is not a whimsical question, in some exceptions it may be, but in the normal and habitual it is not and will then be closely linked with all our moral training.
Meanwhile, it may happen that due to certain issues, such as indifference, saturation or forgetfulness, those norms provided have been rejected in a timely manner, then, surely, those who find themselves in this situation will encounter certain difficulties when it comes to functioning in society, for For example, if they rejected or were indifferent to the rules, the good coexistence or development of the person within a society will be practically impossible, as well as the possibility of being able to judge correctly without being wrong when something is right or wrong, that is, to recognize when something that is done is good or bad.
Unfortunately, in these cases the results are disastrous and the consequences are very dangerous for those who lack moral judgment, because their behaviors and actions will inevitably be dominated by an unreason that will not pay attention to the fact that their actions generate damages or conflicts.
The criminals are a witness case of what we are saying. The offender always lives contrary to the norm, what is socially agreed and what is naturally expected of a person. Marginal life will almost always end up destroying that valuation between good and bad and all those that have been inculcated in the child about moral values.
