Is there a distinct difference between Morality and Idealism and is it possible it have one without the other?

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I'm just curious because I have become less and less of what I would consider Idealistic as I get older but my Moral beliefs haven't changed all that much for the most part and I have even had the full circle thought process experience when my morals did ''change''.

In my opinion morals boil down to don't actively destroy things for only your own benefit while idealism is a steadfast belief in an idea that might or might not make the world a better place when it's put into practice. For example you don't have to believe in the ideals of Capitalism, World Peace, Democracy, Marxism, National Socialism, and Social Engineering in order to believe that hedge funding, creating a wars for profit, manipulating the results of elections, having a government rule in an iron fist or terror over its people. or having a master race control society, and violating an individuals free will as all morally wrong.

Am I off in making a distinction between Morality and Idealism or dose this distinction really exist?

All hat · Accepted Answer

Morality is not idealistic.  It's as sharp and well-defined as physics or chemistry.  But like those things, most of us have at best a fuzzy view of parts of them.  Further, we incorrectly assume that all the view anyone can have of them is as fuzzy as ours.  Or that it is subjective.  Morality is objective and useful on a day to day basis, imo.  It is the recipe for love and getting along in a society.  Idealism, I don't know.  We can wish a good thing were better, wish more people did it, wish we did it more - not sure what idealism really means - but morality is just a skill set, not unlike karate or how to drive a car, that if you do it you get the result.

Is there a distinct difference between Morality and Idealism and is it possible it have one without the other?

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