MORALITY IS UNNATURAL
- Madhukar Dama
- May 10
- 6 min read
Morality is not a natural trait of human beings. It is a late cultural invention — born from the need to control, not to care. While society may glorify moral behavior as the highest form of goodness, it is, in reality, an externally imposed code that disconnects individuals from their own instinct, context, and clarity.
1. MORALITY IS ABSENT IN NATURE
There is no lion that feels guilty after eating a deer.
No bird that apologizes for stealing a twig.
No tree that asks permission before growing taller than the others.
Nature functions through relationships — not rules. Each being acts from need, rhythm, and mutual adaptation. Morality does not exist in this ecosystem. Only balance does. When humans introduce morality into this system, it creates interference, not harmony.
2. MORALITY IS MANUFACTURED THROUGH TRAINING
Children are not born moral. They are born with instincts, needs, emotions, and curiosity. Morality is installed through a lifelong process of conditioning — via punishments, rewards, approval, shame, and fear.
A child who hits another is not told why it hurts. He is simply told it is wrong. Thus, he obeys out of fear, not understanding. His natural impulse is not explored, just judged. This turns morality into behavioral programming, not learning.
3. MORALITY IS A CONTROL MECHANISM
At its core, morality is about obedience.
The right to define morality is almost always held by the powerful:
Kings and governments
Religions and gods
Teachers and institutions
Parents and elders
They define what is good and what is evil, not based on truth, but based on what keeps the system running. For example: obedience is moral; rebellion is immoral. Chastity is moral; pleasure is immoral. Silence is moral; questioning is immoral. In this way, morality is a leash disguised as virtue.
4. MORALITY DESTROYS INSTINCT
Human beings are born with strong instincts — for protection, bonding, fairness, and self-regulation. But moral education overrides all this.
Children are taught not to trust their feelings:
“Don’t be angry.”
“Stop crying.”
“Shame on you.”
Eventually, they learn to suppress themselves instead of listening to their internal compass. Over time, they lose access to their instincts and develop a split identity — one that performs morality on the outside while rotting with guilt, shame, or rebellion on the inside.
5. MORALITY ENFORCES UNIFORMITY
Morality is standardized.
It does not adapt to culture, context, or circumstances.
It dictates what is right and wrong in black-and-white terms, leaving no space for complexity. For example:
It is always wrong to lie — even to protect someone.
It is always wrong to steal — even if your child is starving.
It is always wrong to disobey elders — even if they are unjust.
Such rigidity leaves no space for discernment. It punishes the ability to think critically and act contextually.
6. MORALITY BREEDS HYPOCRISY
When people are moralized from outside, not developed from within, they learn to perform goodness — not to be authentic.
They follow rules in public and violate them in private.
They judge others for sins they secretly commit.
They become actors — pretending to be kind, faithful, honest — while hiding rage, lust, fear, or jealousy.
The more moral a society appears on the surface, the more deeply its dysfunction is buried.
7. MORALITY IS DESIGNED TO CREATE GUILT
Morality does not allow natural mistakes or emotional complexity.
It shames any deviation.
Even thoughts are judged: “You shouldn’t even feel that.”
The result is a person who cannot distinguish between harmful action and mere emotion.
Feeling jealous becomes immoral.
Being tired of caregiving becomes immoral.
Experiencing sexual desire becomes immoral.
People begin to suffer simply for being human.
8. MORALITY SUPPORTS VIOLENCE
Ironically, morality has justified some of history’s greatest evils:
Colonialism: “We are civilizing the savages.”
War: “We are fighting for righteousness.”
Caste: “Purity must be preserved.”
Gender violence: “Women must be corrected.”
Once a behavior is labeled immoral, people feel free to punish, shame, imprison, convert, or kill — all in the name of virtue.
Thus, morality becomes the moral license for cruelty.
9. MORALITY BLOCKS LEARNING
When a person does something “wrong” and is punished, they are more likely to hide it than to understand it.
They are not invited to reflect. They are not encouraged to grow.
Instead, they are labeled: “bad child,” “sinner,” “failure,” “rebel.”
As a result, mistakes — which are essential to growth — become shameful events instead of teachable moments.
Morality thus halts learning by replacing it with judgment.
10. MORALITY IS A TOOL FOR MASS BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
The larger a group, the harder it is to manage individual relationships.
So morality is used as a shortcut.
Instead of teaching each person how to relate, institutions install codes of conduct.
This is useful for governments, armies, corporations, and religions.
But it is not natural for humans. It converts fluid, relational beings into programmable units. It trains obedience, not conscience.
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CONCLUSION
Morality did not come from life.
It came from civilization.
It is a tool — created to override instinct, automate obedience, suppress complexity, and standardize behavior.
It may bring surface-level order, but it kills depth, presence, and authenticity.
It is not natural.
It is man-made.
It is imposed.
It does not make us good.
It makes us afraid.
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"GOOD PEOPLE ARE THE WORST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO THIS PLANET"
they came
with white shirts and oily hair
carrying folded hands
saying “namaste” to corpses they created
they had the right words
truth, kindness, dharma, non-violence, patriotism, sustainability, girl child
they hung these words like air-fresheners
in a room full of vomit
they taught their sons not to cry
their daughters not to bleed
their wives not to speak
and called it morality
they covered the woman’s chest
then stared at it in silence
they banned meat
then bribed the butcher
they never touched a drop of alcohol
but poisoned ten families with their respectable lies
they quoted Gandhi, Buddha, and some professor
but never once watched an animal live
they said anger is wrong
so they stored it in their gut
until it became acid, cancer, or religion
then exploded it on their own children
they never missed a prayer
but refused to feed a beggar
they donated to temples
but fired their maid for being pregnant
they taught kids not to steal
but built homes on stolen forest land
they taught truth
but kept a second phone
a second sim
a second life
they called themselves civilized
but kept caste
kept dowry
kept hierarchy
kept every ugly thing under white bedsheets
they said lying is a sin
but their entire marriage
was a staged play
with two actors pretending for a pension
they paid for the cow’s funeral
but forced their daughter-in-law to abort
they posted “save the girl child”
but laughed when their neighbor gave birth to one
they asked “what will people say?”
before they asked “what do you feel?”
they forced their sons into IIT
then blamed their suicides on “pressure”
they forced their daughters into marriage
then blamed dowry deaths on “karma”
they said masturbation is immoral
as if shame was a better teacher than curiosity
they said don’t touch yourself
and then touched others without consent
they banned porn
but uploaded wedding videos of 9-year-old girls
they banned cigarettes
but sold sugar, oil, and despair
in shiny packets at the temple gate
they said animals don’t feel pain
then cried when their dog died
they said “plants are living beings too”
just to defend murder
and went right back to their biryani
they named their sons shaurya
and their daughters sanskriti
then raised them on TV, denial, and holy hypocrisy
they watched lions eat deer
and said, “that’s just nature”
but when their own instincts stirred
they ran to the priest, the doctor, or the judge
they called tribal people uncivilized
because they didn’t have toilet tiles
or pay income tax
or lie for status
they dressed their children in uniforms
just to make them unrecognizable
then sent them to moral science classes
to kill the last ounce of wild in them
they said
morality is what makes us human
no
morality is what makes us dishonest
no crow needs a rulebook
to love its dead
no elephant needs religion
to mourn its mother
no wolf needs a god
to share food with its pack
no tree needs a constitution
to give shade to a stranger
but we
we need commandments
laws
virtues
and warnings
because
without them
we’d have to rely on our own goddamn senses
and that
is terrifying
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