What I ought to do?
Introduction
More and more often routine consumes every day of our life. However, in the fast pace society
in which we live, people at some point try to make an assessment of what they are doing and
why. Therefore, here is where appears the most basic, but at the same time open question,
“What I ought to do?”.
Conversely, after many centuries of research and analyses, this question is still open and is far
from being answer. To main avenues have risen to try to explain this question, or what key
elements are behind it: philosophical and non-philosophical perspective. This essay will try to
cover or discuss some of this non-philosophical perspective, from three key examples:
traditions, conscience and law.
Traditions
Tradition is normally defined as the set of cultural values of a certain region or place, that are
transmitted from one generation to another. Normally, these cultural values have a high
relevancy in the way certain communities work and behave. Since these traditions are
normally different from one region to another, this can arise different perspectives that collide
in between them to answer the question of “what I ought to do?”. Take religion as an example.
Church sets some traditions, such as going every Sunday to pray, the processions in Easter in
Spain, etc. However, the traditions and values the pass generation after generation do not
include many of collectives (LGTB community). In stead of including them in their traditions,
they promote hate against them, defining them in some cases as “enemies of religion”.
Nevertheless, this hate goes against many of the values that religions try to teach and
