Inquiry proposal

Makenzie Mooney
Mrs. Thomas
UWRT 1104
13 October 2016
Morals lost. Whats gained? {change title because this sucks}
There are a lot of different views on how morals work. Philosophers,
Psychologist, and religious leaders all differ in the different ways that they
believe morals came to be. Morals can be viewed in many different forms
people born in baby boomer/generation X have a different set of morals than
that of millennials. {talk about some examples of the differing generations.
Like if there is a movie or and book that shows this nicely.} I started to think
about how my parents have different views on many aspects of life when
compared to me and if this is caused by my lack of traditional morals. This
brought me to my Inquiry question: why is there a decline in morals and
where do morals derive from? As I began to further research this topic I
found some possible answers that I would like to study more about;
Millennials dont see their lack of morality as being a lack but more of a
gaining of different values above others and there is not definite answer for
where morality comes from although many people would say otherwise. The
thing that made me choose this inquiry question was it is almost never
ending. People try to study it but can never prove anything. Another think
that I thought was interesting was how much influence that it has over

people. Morality effects every part of our lives no matter what we do it is a

part of our decision making process.
As I was searching this topic I found that some people think that the
loss of moral values has hurt society, others think that is has helped to
expand our minds and except things easier. The part that makes this
discovery weird is that the different mindsets can almost fit perfectly into
two separate groups with the millennials and acceptance in one and the
other generations and believing that the loss of morals has hurt society in
the other. I found many odd things about the loss of morality in millennials,
like people claiming that it is due to hook-ups, less religion, more
acceptance, and technological advances. Some of these make more sense
than others but they all in a way add to the big picture. millennials are lazy,
rude, and entitled I felt a connection to this summed up caption that I
continuously saw throughout my search. I think that I could expand on this
and somehow connect the lazy, rude, and entitled baby boomer/generation
x definition for millennials to how they see the loss of morals in the same
light, fixing a broken system a thing that not many of them understand. {talk
about some examples of how millennials arent lazy, rude, and entitled. Make
sure to explain how this is true. Add in a movie or and book that shows this
nicely if possible.} By including how other generations view the millennials I
will be able to reach a wider range of concepts that can make my paper
come together.

Morality is something thats true origin is long sought for. Some time it
comes from a higher power, a God. The ten commandments and the holy
bible lay out the right and wrongs of the earth. The loss of morality would
directly be the loss of religion, others think that we act on instinct and selfpreservation or more of an evolution of morality, and scientist like Jean
Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg, who considered moral judgment to be based
on a process of explicit cognitive reasoning {find a case study about this or
someone who studied its opinion and add it in here} while doing research I
found a term call the Universalist moral scheme, which widely means if two
people have differing opinions on whether something is moral or not, they
cannot both be right, they may be both incorrect. There are many things that
people seem the view are wrong I this ideology. {add in an example: old,
new, and Quran. Cannot all be right if moral standards differ} (theism)
I am really on skimming the surface on the world wide debate on bible vs
evolution. This question is important to me in many ways, being a millennial
and a Christian. My hope for my inquiry will be to further expand my reader
thought process when doing something. Why do I deem one thing right and
other wrong? I know that I cant fully answer my question but I feel as it that
is kind of the point. You cannot put a definition on something that is only
mildly understood.