Moral Framework

Morality as a set of absolutes or stone chiseled laws has failed the test of time in Human culture.  Morality as a set of rules defined by a society or country without regard to history or societies outside of its borders has also failed.  Morality is defined by our social circumstances and is therefore relative to those circumstances but not to the underlying framework.  Which is that we must act individually within a collective to enusre our individual and collective survival.  The example of two combatants who are equally moral in blowing each others brains out is not justified under the moral framework.  They amy both be acting immorally.
they are not both acting morally.  Under the physical threat of death it is moral to defend oneself to the point of killing another to eliminate that threat under the condition that the defender is not jeopardizing the lives of others or did not provoke the attack unnecessarily.  The above picture is from a recent movie, "The Act of Killing".  This docuemntary details the government sponsored murderers and torturers during the massacre of Communists in Indonesia in the 60's.  The gangsters and thugs the Indonesian government were unapologetic and sometimes gleeful in recalling their attrocities.  Their motive was profit.  The government's motive was control through fear.  There can be no moral justification for their actions because no moral framework was considered. They did it because they could.  We have to be better than that.  We have to consider our actions as they affect our ability to survive.