Let's imagine two towns, separated by a magnificent river and united by the need to develop by exchanging goods and expanding their knowledge. Building a bridge to join them means making first contact; edifying another one makes interaction more streamlined. Making connections satisfies the primary need, and over time new discoveries combine to overcome the distance: instead of crossing the river, one can make a phone call, send an email and, one day, new paths will be born thanks to the capability of updating, whether it is technological, of thought or of need. The above example thrives on practicality, and morality works in the same way: a practical model of behavior through which people act to protect the founding value of their community, the need around which they gathered together, thus giving way to their society. Wanting to identify an absolute value towards which the action of every civilization should tend, everything could lead to respect: of the neighbor because similar in needs, of the living environment, of those who, for various reasons, made everything possible. In interpretating this value, what differentiated civilizations was above all the concept of "neighbor": of how many and which living beings can be considered worthy of the attention of the founding value. Over the centuries, the scenarios have changed enormously: respect for the environment, for example, found a divine root in the primordial tribes, manifesting itself through a morality of protection and veneration of nature and its expressions. Today, the same respect for the environment has a different conception, it is the result of an emergency, of a knowledge that has suggested a change of pace in morality. And if twenty years ago throwing the cigarette filter on the ground was the natural consequence of the last puff, today this gesture is deplorable and condemned thanks to morality and its updated awareness. If we look at human rights, the subject travels along analogous tracks. Let us think of slavery, still recognized by nations belonging to the United States of America until 157 years ago, which featured plenty of social classes for millennia. We are accustomed to conferring the judgment of immorality now that the awareness of neighbor, with his own needs, is abolishing all forms of discrimination and authoritarian deprivation of the freedom of others. Morality is therefore ever-changing: habits and customs become traditions, meeting new knowledge, updating the point of view and improving the strategy. Societies evolve when they are in a position to broaden observation, to collect new data that inevitably help to identify future benefits and challenges. As for strategy videogames, exploration sheds light on shadowy areas and the available map is enriched with additional elements. Morality has a practical duty to remain faithful to itself in order to pass on the initial value and to satisfy its need; at the same time, through example, it is the only one able to update the collective opinion, unlike the moralism that paralyzes it. Morality changes on the ways of respect and in the light of the knowledge reached to exercise the founding value. Notions and skills that broaden the field of vision and modernise the available resources and the priority of needs. 35
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