Social morality is the simplest, most basic, and most common code of conduct in social life. It is the most basic condition for maintaining the normal, orderly, and healthy development of social life. Therefore, social morality is the code of conduct that all citizens should follow in social interactions and public life, and it is also the moral conduct that citizens should have. The "Implementation Outline for the Construction of Citizen Morality" clearly defines the main contents and requirements of social morality with twenty words: "being civilized and courteous, helping others, caring for public property, protecting the environment, and abiding by laws and regulations."
1. Civility and courtesy
Civility and courtesy are the excellent traditions of the Chinese nation and the moral principles that people should uniformly abide by in daily interpersonal interactions. In people's interactions with each other, a pleasant tone of voice, a kind name, a sincere attitude, etc. are manifestations of mutual respect and friendliness. As the saying goes: "A kind word warms three winters, but a bad word hurts six months." Therefore, being civilized and polite can promote people's unity and friendship, and is a moral bridge to communicate emotions between people.
Being civilized and polite is one of the signs of social civilization and personal moral cultivation. A person's behavior can best reflect a person's moral cultivation and civilization. Every self-respecting person should cultivate personal etiquette as a quality for success. However, in real life, people still see various phenomena of being uncivilized and polite. For example, some people often speak rudely and hurt others, are rude without apologizing, are unreasonable and aggressive, knock down people on bicycles and then drive away, and take advantage of others. There is a rush for cars, and when you meet an elderly person or a woman carrying a child on a bus, you will not give up your seat... and so on, are all signs of being uncivilized and must be seriously overcome.
Civility and courtesy include many contents and requirements. What needs to be pointed out here is that the requirements and contents of civility and courtesy are not static. They will be constantly updated with the progress of society. For example, the Chinese nation has always had a tradition of hospitality. “When a guest comes to your door, you should step down and greet him.” However, in modern society, visiting relatives and friends requires not only knocking on the door softly, but also making an appointment in advance by phone or other means. In addition, with the continuous expansion of opening up to the outside world, we have more and more interactions with foreign friends. We must understand and master each other's customs and habits, and respect each other's etiquette.
2. Helping others
When a person is in trouble, everyone is willing to help, regard other people's difficulties as their own difficulties, and provide enthusiastic and sincere help and care. This is Just helping others.
In real society, everyone lives in certain interpersonal interactions. No member of society can survive in isolation. Everyone will encounter some difficulties, contradictions and problems in life, and they all We need care and love from others, and even more support and help from others. If in social life, everyone can take the initiative to care and help others, start from yourself, start from small things, and start from now, so that helping others becomes a common practice in society, then you can get help from others anytime and anywhere. Help and feel the warmth of society. In this sense, "helping others" is also "helping oneself". Therefore, everyone should carry forward the spirit of helping others and actively love and help others. Specifically, we should do the following: First, "I am for everyone." Everyone should start by doing small things such as giving up their seat in a car or helping people with disabilities cross the road, and develop the habit of caring for others. The second is "helping each other in times of difficulty". The sky has unpredictable events, and people have misfortunes and blessings. When misfortune or difficulties occur to others, help them enthusiastically and share their worries. The third is to "rescue each other when in danger". For example, when encountering gangsters, bullying, unexpected dangers and other critical situations, every citizen should step forward, sacrifice himself to save others, and promote righteousness. In recent years, a number of model figures who have acted bravely for justice have emerged in our city, such as Qin Bingkui, Zhang Tokyo, Zuo Baozhong, Sheng Xiaohong, etc. They are all role models for us to learn from. The fourth is to be enthusiastic about public welfare. Social welfare reflects the new socialist interpersonal relationship and is closely related to every citizen. Every citizen should pay attention to and support social welfare, show more love, add more true feelings, and be an enthusiastic person in social life, such as disaster relief, donating funds for education, voluntary blood donation, donating money and materials to social welfare undertakings, etc. Wait, make sure you have the money to contribute and the strength to contribute.
3. Caring for public property
Public property includes facilities in all public places. They are materials that improve people's living standards and enable everyone to enjoy various services and conveniences. ensure. Whether one treats public property with care and protection, or wastes and destroys it, is a reflection of whether a citizen has socialist ethics. Every citizen should consciously abide by social ethics and protect public property. First, we must protect the public property of our unit, make a distinction between public and private, do not occupy public property, and do not turn public property into private. But in real life, some people don't take good care of machines and equipment; some people do everything possible to save electricity and water at home, but they don't care about "eternal lights" and "eternal running water" at work; some people even turn public affairs into private affairs and act arbitrarily They occupy public property and believe that "if you don't take public property, you won't take it for free." Second, we must protect public facilities, such as telephone booths, street lights, related communication lines, transportation facilities, etc., and also protect cultural relics and historic sites so that they can serve more people. Some people do not pay attention to protecting public facilities. We regret to see: public service billboards on the streets have been deliberately damaged, the glass of promotional windows has been artificially damaged, and several "sika deer" and "little goats" have been set up in new urban parks. Some people have become "disabled"; some people just like to "write random inscriptions" in parks, cultural relics and other places; some people even regard public facilities as "a source of wealth" and maliciously steal manhole covers. Pedestrians were injured and disabled at night. Third, we must have the courage to fight against acts of embezzlement, damage, and destruction of public property. Some people often complain about poor public facilities, but they are indifferent to the random destruction and damage of public facilities, turning a blind eye and not asking anything. Every citizen has the responsibility and obligation to fight against acts of encroachment, damage, and destruction of public property, and to care for and protect public property at all times and everywhere.
4. Protect the environment
Environmental issues are currently a hot issue of widespread concern to the international community. In recent years, the hazards caused by a series of environmental problems such as the long-term cessation of the Yellow River and the frequent occurrence of sandstorms have made people increasingly aware that environment and resources are the basic conditions for human survival and development. Whether we can effectively protect the environment is related to the quality of life and vital interests of every citizen, to people's ability to live and work in peace and contentment, and to the sustainable development of our future generations. To protect the environment is to protect ourselves. Protecting the environment is not only a basic national policy of our country, but also a basic requirement of social morality.
To protect the environment, we must first enhance environmental awareness. Some people believe that now is the primary stage, and the economy must be developed first, and environmental governance can be dealt with later. Don't you know that environmental problems have become a major constraint on our economic development, and the harm caused by environmental pollution has far exceeded the "benefits" produced by polluting enterprises in previous years. According to calculations by relevant departments, at least 200 billion yuan will be invested in treating Taihu Lake. The stakes can be imagined. However, there are still a few people who think: The sky is so big, so a little smoke is nothing; there are so many rivers, a little sewage is nothing; the world is so vast, a little noise is nothing. Each of our citizens must understand that "we only have one earth". In the process of economic development, we not only need "gold and silver mountains", but also "lucid waters and green mountains." Secondly, we must establish the concept of "protecting the environment, everyone is responsible", start from ourselves, start from the small things around us, and strive to develop living habits and behaviors that are conducive to environmental protection, such as consciously saving energy, opposing waste, Do not dump garbage, sewage, or damage various environmental sanitation facilities. In addition, we should actively participate in afforestation and protect the greening achievements.
5. Observe disciplines and laws
As the saying goes: Without rules, there is no rule. For a citizen, whether he consciously maintains order in public places and whether he has a strong sense of discipline and legal awareness reflects his spiritual and moral outlook. Compliance with laws and regulations is also the basis for protecting the healthy and orderly development of society.
To abide by the law, you must first know the law. With the deepening of the "Third Five-Year Plan" and "Fourth Five-Year Plan" legal popularization activities, citizens' legal awareness has generally increased.
However, in daily life, there are often some people who, because of their ignorance of the law, exchange bad words, fight with fists, hurt each other, and even cause life-long cases over trivial matters. Such painful lessons are common. Therefore, every citizen must study legal knowledge seriously and continuously enhance legal awareness. First of all, you must learn the knowledge of laws and regulations that are closely related to your work and life, and understand what can and cannot be done, what is allowed by the law, and what is prohibited by the law. Secondly, we must abide by the law. A few people believe that today's market economy advocates free competition. Therefore, some people are selfish and selfish, misappropriating other people's patents or trademark rights, manufacturing counterfeit and shoddy products, and some even manufacturing and selling obscene audio and video products. In essence, the market economy is a competitive economy, and it is also a legal economy. Everyone must strictly abide by various laws and regulations, otherwise, they will be punished by law. The third is to protect the law. Some people still believe that "it has nothing to do with themselves, just leave it alone". When illegal and criminal activities do not harm their own interests, they believe that "it has nothing to do with them" and there is no need to meddle in "nothing". If everyone only considers their own safety, refuses to fight or avoid evil, or even refuses to help when they see someone fighting with criminals, a situation that makes "heroes bleed and shed tears" will cause evil spirits to rise and make the situation worse. There is no peace in society. Today a gangster insults a woman passing by, but if you don't do anything, tomorrow it might happen to your family; if you don't stop a thief from stealing someone else's wallet today, tomorrow the evil black hand might reach into your pocket. . Therefore, each of us must dare to strengthen the good and eliminate evil, fight against all violations of laws and disciplines, and strive to create a good social environment for others and ourselves.