MORALITY


 * Positive || Negative ||
 * Socialy acceptable behavior || Attempt to spread morality to others ||
 * Feel good about yourself || Starts disputes ||
 * Causes good decision making || Morality isn't universal, rather relative ||
 * Gives one a sense of identy || Restrictive ||
 * Necessary in human development of the mind (super-ego) || Supresses natural human motivations ||
 * Easier to assimilate || Limits your ability to make difficult decisions ||
 * Promotes a positive reputation and trust from others || Leads to a relatively close-minded view of the world ||

An example of negative morality in the book can be seen on page 95 where morality causes the dispute between liberals and conservatives. Moscote says that liberals were "freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce, to recognize the rights of illigitimate children to those of ligitimate ones." "Conservatives, on the other hand received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public order and family morality." This is an excellent example because the opposing moralities of the two parties cause a lot of conflicts which lead to the 32 revolutions by Colonel Aureliano Buendia.

An example of positive morality can be seen in the same section of the book on page 96 when the Colonel says "If I have to be something I'll be a liberal because the conservatives are tricky." This is giving Aureliano the sense of identity as a liberal because he has seen the immoral ways of the conservatives who were stuffing the ballot boxes, and he makes the decission to oppose them based on his own morality.