Moral Character Viewpoints

Moral Character Viewpoints

Many in my cluster agreed that a person who smokes does not always have a bad moral
character; it just means that they fell into a bad habit. Sometimes bad habits can be brought on by
the environment for which one surrounds themselves by. It is said that “a person with bad habits
may not always be a person with bad moral character, whereas a person with bad moral character
is more likely to have bad habits.
Now as for what we disagreed upon, I would have to say it was that a person who was a habitual
smoker is a person who has bad moral character. In fact a person who smokes is usually doing it
to relieve stress or just to relax. Did this Disagreement follows traditional or modern ethical
thinking? I would have to say that this is following modern ethical thinking because in the
traditional or olden days, smoking is known to be a sign of bad moral character. In modern times
it seems as though more and more of society finds smoking to be just a bad habit and not a drug
addiction.
In conclusion, I see that if whether you have a bad habit or not it does not always mean that you
are one of bad moral values or character, it just means that you have a flaw or weakness for
certain habits.