@EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social Dr G, I am holed up on the interpretation of morality with regard to mans laws. Life is so simple, a meal, a cot and a snuggle ... what the hell is so difficult about seeing that all is happy and satisfied!
@PerryM@newsie.social
Man's laws are almost always about keeping order, and only incidentally related to justice.
Morality is happily redefined by many religious leaders, often to the point were it is no longer recognizable. Yet at its unmanipulated heart, morality speaks to justice.
Alas, history demonstrates that far too few humans find morality compelling.
Word:
"Live your life in such a way that America's worst president sends a deranged and disgusting post about you when you die."
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https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3ma22hcubg22c
It's dangerous to be a citizen when your government is the terrorist.
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” - James Baldwin
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.
Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials
@PerryM@newsie.social
"Man!" said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart; not adamant; forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you and such as you decide what men shall live, what men shall die! It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child.
@PerryM@newsie.social Or, a more modern interpretation of that quote,
Yes. So perhaps, in the future, you will hold your tongue until you have discovered what the surplus population is and where it is. It may well be that, in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than MILLIONS like this poor man's child.
Heads Up! (Aside: We have a new example of the absolute worst in human life, courtesy of ICE.)
Word:
"Live your life in such a way that America's worst president sends a deranged and disgusting post about you when you die."
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https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bsky.social/post/3ma22hcubg22c
It's dangerous to be a citizen when your government is the terrorist.
"Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own." — Pope Francis
(I wish I could forward this to all who work for ICE.)
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.” - James Baldwin
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ― John F. Kennedy
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.
Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
The time is always right to do what is right.
MLK
PerryM ✅
Dr G