Trapped in amorality?

There’s that time in our life when we enter the amorality zone for one reason or the other, in some cases, our presence in this zone may actually be beneficial…and in other can be even destructive. “The amorality zone” is basically that moment in which we enter the I-don’t-give-a-shit-land; basically it represents our lack of interest or defiance of towards validating actions, thoughts or values as moral or immoral. Getting trapped in the amorality zone may also be a defense mechanism; when social pressure becomes too high, when our moral values are in constant conflict with the ethical norms of our society…we often block everything and enter the amorality zone to get a sense of security that is lacking. Tacking in to consideration the law of double effects which tells us that every action has both a good and bad, amorality can be a shield that would isolate us from the stress of a overly pretentious and neurotic society, but is can also make us insensible to the ones around us, ending with the potential of harming others and creating social unbalances.

Nowadays, amorality can be seen in a number of subcultures, those who have a general and profound lack of interest towards the moral label that actions, thoughts and values might receive. But is amorality used as a shield of protection from social pressure? Can we talk about authentic amorality when one is conscious about the existence of “moral stamps”? Or is amorality usually found there where there is not conscious understanding of an actions morality or immorality, or when it was just not a priority?

There is much to be said about amorality, state which is often seen as a void, a blank spot or something that is just missing. Amorality can’t be labeled as unnatural or defiant of any law of conduct, this mainly do to the fact that we morally judge something that represents something important for us. So can we state that amorality can be synonymous with non-morality? Well, there is a big difference here; when we talk about something falling within the borders of amorality, we are talking about something that has the features that makes it a valid candidate for being morally judged. When non-morality comes in to the scene, we are talking about something that doesn’t make the subject compatible for being morally judged. So, we are amoral when we do things that make the subject moral judgement but we ignore the fact that they will receive a moral label, if not by us, be the ones around us. Morality, immorality, amorality and non-morality are constants of our daily lives; in many cases they are contextual, we can become in only one day the subject of moral, immoral, amoral and non-moral actions. Or this can happen only in one hour; as humans, we will always have them as structural elements that define our social reality, thus making us understand the social environment from around us easier.