Is there any moral common ground?
Jul. 4th, 2011 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marjaerwinNo.
There is no moral common ground with those who think that subordination and supremacy are good, for these are evil. There is no moral common ground with those who think morality means obedience to some pseudo-legitimate authoritae. There is no moral common ground with those who think morality means loyalty to one's country or one's skin-privilege. There is no moral common ground with those who think that patriotism, nationalism, war and slaughter - for all these are different names for the same evil - are good, for these are evil. There is no moral common ground with those who think they are better because they were born of noble blood or born on Amerikkkan soil. There is no moral common ground with those who think that retribution, punishment, revenge are good, for these are evil. There is no moral common ground for those who think that good means loyalty to kings, loyalty to countries, loyalty to oaths, loyalty to EVIL.
When people choose evil and call it good - when people blindly do so, and believe that the evil is indeed good, and denounce those who call it out for the evil it is - I wonder, what room is left for persuasion.
I hope that the good yet cries out from within them: The recognition that we are to love ourselves, to treat others as our equals, and loving ourselves, to love others. The recognition that oppression is wrong, that murder is wrong, and then the realisation that it is just as wrong when the state does it, to realise that the state is no good but is another evil...
There is no moral common ground with those who think that subordination and supremacy are good, for these are evil. There is no moral common ground with those who think morality means obedience to some pseudo-legitimate authoritae. There is no moral common ground with those who think morality means loyalty to one's country or one's skin-privilege. There is no moral common ground with those who think that patriotism, nationalism, war and slaughter - for all these are different names for the same evil - are good, for these are evil. There is no moral common ground with those who think they are better because they were born of noble blood or born on Amerikkkan soil. There is no moral common ground with those who think that retribution, punishment, revenge are good, for these are evil. There is no moral common ground for those who think that good means loyalty to kings, loyalty to countries, loyalty to oaths, loyalty to EVIL.
When people choose evil and call it good - when people blindly do so, and believe that the evil is indeed good, and denounce those who call it out for the evil it is - I wonder, what room is left for persuasion.
I hope that the good yet cries out from within them: The recognition that we are to love ourselves, to treat others as our equals, and loving ourselves, to love others. The recognition that oppression is wrong, that murder is wrong, and then the realisation that it is just as wrong when the state does it, to realise that the state is no good but is another evil...
