Where does the Moral Compass Point?

 "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Another big question that has come to my mind is this: Who decides what is moral and immoral. Is morality a construct of society, is it hardwired into our brains or is it something used universally to balance our actions?

In the case of privatization who decides what is "morally" right and wrong? Corporations are being portrayed as the bad guys but are they really bad guys? In their opinion privatization must be a good thing regardless of how much money it's going to make them. What about students? Why do we feel (if we feel anything at all) so infuriated about it? Is there an immediate distress caused to us? I think there is in the form of tuition hikes and increased strain on the education system however I believe in Darwin's theory of evolution as do most college educated students...so can this whole situation be viewed as a form of evolution? Is a "thinning" of the herd what is needed? Is nature trying to maintain balance...or is greed the root of all evil.


I think that this issue should be viewed by everybody from all perspectives. There may be many positives to privatization, now that may just be the business major inside of me talking but regardless is it a lesser evil than it's being conveyed as? The government doesn't have enough money, and if they give more money to the education system it will be a good thing, right?

When I think about people arguing that the state and fed need to spend more money on education I always have this same thought play in my head, this image...

You're driving to school, you're a commuter, and you hit a pothole...and another pothole, and another and another. What do you do? You get mad, you blame the Government. You say, "Why can't they fix these potholes, they have enough money to do it. Why don't they give more money fix the roads and potholes in New Brunswick?" It's like a paradox. If the Government were to give a lot, a lot  more money to the education system then I feel like us, the students, would find something else to complain about. I don't know if that makes sense to you but if it does, and you can grasp the gist of what I'm trying to explain then you may have a slight understanding of how I feel....
stuck.