Moral principles are mostly static and conservatory. Yet, the rules couched from them evolves with time.

I consider morality as a variable. It can be good or bad.

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Ethics are based on moral values; but these values may evolve considering newer standarts. For instance, slavery is not permitted these days; and homosexuals are not jailed or killed, because of their gender preference. 

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Some of us seem inclined to understand and speak of morality in terms of some specific set of values (such as those commonly advocated by self-identified conservatives or progressives), rather than in terms of acknowledging and accounting for values generally, including the conflicts and tensions between and among them. When I posit morality as my values, or when a subset of us posit morality as our subset of values, we are merely engaged in egotism or its communal analogs.

Is morality static or variable?

Think morality can be both static or variable from the perspective of individual perception as well as from different moral philosophy.

From individual perception - certain behavior which is perceived to be ethical e.g. providing a small gift to a customer might be perceived otherwise by different people / cultures / countries.

From moral philosophy - finding Kantianism (e.g. right is right, wrong is wrong) is more static vs Utilitarianism which is more variable i.e. people will behave differently depending on the utilities / benefits s/he is anticipating. Some of the explanation of moral philosophies / ethical theories can be found in the following 2 RG links:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Could_you_tell_which_ethical_theory_is_related_to_ethical_behaviour

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Ethics_what_are_they

Dear ابتسام صاحب الزويني

Morality is static does not change according to the standards of modernization and development, the variable is the different concepts between the ages, maturation and civilizations and the sediments of different customs

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It is ought to be static. Thanks for sharing your question.

Dear Dr. ابتســـــــــــام

Thank you for sharing this question .

As I think the morality is static , but some times it was acquired from the society in which the persons live..

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Ethics is variable and not fixed according to the environment in which the individual lives and the circumstances a person passes through

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No it is not a variable for sure ....

That which varies is not moral , that which stays and guides us towards dos and don'ts .

unfortunately the code of behavior (morality) can't remain invariable

because considering results of the actions - the person learns much.

At first we must know what morality is. Morals are the basic principles of any society. Everyone lives under the umbrella of society and must be organized with specific rules in order to be strong and sound.

Now the science is adding new things every moment. Communities change: there is very little similarity between us and the ancient societies. Even on a personal level, our understanding of things changes as we get older. The values I had as a child are not the same now and I am a big age. So, why not expect our morals to change somewhat with time, learning, experience and age?

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Thank you so much dear colleagues for your valuable answers. I highly appreciate it.

Very good and valuable answer dear Dr. Isam Issa. Well done .

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Dear ... it is very hard to define what moral is. However if you connected the moral with the basis of the society, then you can say that moral is not static. Our moral norms changes according to the change in the society we live in. For example, in the past wearing a tattoo was a big moral issue, and it was considered as shameful, unseemly, not desirable etc. Nowadays we perceive the tattoos as something normal, connecting them with the youth etc. Thus, moral issues change across the time and it is accordingly the change of the society.

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Is morality static or variable?

For politicians, this is the most variable matter :-)

I believe that objective moral values exist, which is to say that some things are right and wrong independently of whether anyone believes in them or not. Thus love is right, even if everyone on planet Earth believed it was wrong. The inhabitants of Earth would simply be mistaken. Likewise, the Holocaust was wrong, even if the Nazis had won World War II and succeeded in brainwashing or exterminating everyone who disagreed with them. So even if everyone on Earth thought the Holocaust was good, they would all be mistaken.

However, this isn't to say that everything is either objectively right or objectively wrong. Many things are morally neutral. That is to say, there is no fact of the matter as to whether they are right or wrong, and people can choose to do whatever they want. I think intolerance and fundamentalism arise when people take things that have no objective moral truth value and gratuitously declare them to possess such a truth value, discriminating against anyone who denies this claim.

I believe morality is static in the short or medium run, but it can be changed over the long run.

Dear Colleagues, Good Day,

"The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind."

---- Annie Besant

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Morality is variable, according to the culture, traditions, time and circumstance of social development that the populations have.

La moralidad es variable, de acuerdo a la cultura, tradiciones, época y circunstancia de desarrollo social que tengan las poblaciones.

"Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality) Therefore, morality is variable depending on the variation of philosophy, religion, culture, and persons' belief.

I think morality standard is static while it is variable from person to person all people are not of the same moral level.

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Dear Colleagues, Good Day,

"The Definition of Morality

The topic of this entry is not—at least directly—moral theory; rather, it is the definition of morality. Moral theories are large and complex things; definitions are not. The question of the definition of morality is the question of identifying the target of moral theorizing. Identifying this target enables us to see different moral theories as attempting to capture the very same thing. In this way, the distinction between a definition of morality and a moral theory parallels the distinction John Rawls (1971: 9) drew between the general concept of justice and various detailed conceptions of it. Rawls’ terminology, however, suggests a psychological distinction, and also suggests that many people have conceptions of justice. But the definition/theory distinction is not psychological, and only moral theorists typically have moral theories.

There does not seem to be much reason to think that a single definition of morality will be applicable to all moral discussions. One reason for this is that “morality” seems to be used in two distinct broad senses: a descriptive sense and a normative sense. More particularly, the term “morality” can be used either

Which of these two senses of “morality” a theorist is using plays a crucial, although sometimes unacknowledged, role in the development of an ethical theory. If one uses “morality” in its descriptive sense, and therefore uses it to refer to codes of conduct actually put forward by distinct groups or societies, one will almost certainly deny that there is a universal morality that applies to all human beings. The descriptive use of “morality” is the one used by anthropologists when they report on the morality of the societies that they study. Recently, some comparative and evolutionary psychologists (Haidt 2006; Hauser 2006; De Waal 1996) have taken morality, or a close anticipation of it, to be present among groups of non-human animals: primarily, but not exclusively, other primates.",...

Please, go to the attached website link for the rest of the article,...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/

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Dear Colleagues, Good Day,

"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality."

------ Albert Schweitzer

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the morality is static / constant in nature....

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Dear ابتسام صاحب الزويني ,

Morality is the accepted in society notions of good and bad, right and wrong, good and evil, and the set of norms of behavior resulting from these representations. Sometimes the term is used in relation not to the whole of society, but to its part.

Bergson identifies two types of societies, two types of social organization, relating them to two types of morality: static and dynamic. The static morality, according to Bergson, is a system of habits, stable stereotypes of social instinct-like behavior, brought to the mechanical automatism of communication skills, rigidly fixed and unchanging in time rituals and norms, initially impersonal, but authoritatively supported in the name of preserving social discipline and hierarchically subordinated managed order .

Unlike the static depersonalized morality of traditional society, dynamic morality, according to Bergson, is essentially personal. It is realized in society to the extent that it is embodied in its specific "charismatic" personalities, becoming carriers of high moral standards, high wisdom of life, the ideals of justice, love and mercy, and also to the extent to which members of this society are able freely, at the deepest level of their life orientations, to perceive and nurture in themselves these patterns and ideals, not as imposed from without, but as experienced by themselves.

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It is variable: It depends on time, region, environment and the amount of money which makes immoral things moral...

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Andreas

Dear Colleagues, Good Day,

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."

----- John Locke

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