1. A moral act should be free from fear and compulsion.
2. Even rising early out of fear of losing situation will render it nonmoral.
3. Similarly living a simple life because one doesn’t have the means to live otherwise is not a moral act.
4. An employer sympathizing with employees or paying them higher wages for fear that they would leave him is not performing a moral act.
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Gandhiji says that a moral act should be free from fear and compulsion. He says that there is no morality whatsoever in a person’s act if he rises early out of the fear that, if he is late to his office, he may lose his situation. Similarly, there is no morality in his living a simple and unpretentious life if he has not the means to live Otherwise.
Plain, simple living would be moral if, though wealthy, the person thinks of all the want and misery in the world about him – and feels that he ought to live a plain, simple life and not one of east and luxury.
Likewise, it is only selfish and hot moral, of an employer to sympathize with his employees or pay them higher wages lest they leave him. It would be moral if the employer wished well of them and treated them kindly realizing how he owed his prosperity to them.
