Syph wrote:Your moral absolutist arrogance is astounding.
Sorry if truth, much like science, is arrogant toward incorrect points of view.
It's clear to me that morality and ethics don't matter to you. Morality is about treating others well, with kindness and compassion.
Which moral absolutist told you that?
If there is no higher source of moral truth or authority than that of mere mortals, then your moral absolutist view that morality is objectively about kindness and compassion (which of course is myopic in itself, but) means nothing - your view is as valid as Hitler's or Dahmers?
So you're admitting to be a moral absolutist, and that your objectively right, and Hitler and Dahmer wrong.
Religion turns otherwise pleasant people into judgmental, misogynist, sex-negative, miserable people.
Au contrare, it turns otherwise miserable, weak-willed people too scared to take a moral stand on anything, and obsessed with their own lusts and vices which lead to their misery, into men and women of strong character, and higher spiritual ideals than obsession with low-class sex.
By any measure, violent crime is at all time lows. We are living in the most peaceful period in the West due to tolerance, openness and a lack of judgement of others.
Not by any means, violent crime of course was much higher after the 1960s and the faux "peace and love movement", if anything it's recent decrease is due to a resurgence in intolerance of immorality and cultural degeneracy, as evidenced by Trump's uprising victory, and the rise of right-wing parties in Europe.
Plus using 'violent crime' as a moral metric is very myopic, there are plenty of debased people who never cross the legal boundardies, Bernie Madoff for example- in fact we own more 'slaves' today via corporate sweatshop labor than we did before the civil war.
What you call "progress" is an illusion, in fact the only reason you have the service economy you do today is because of Hitler and WWII, which made possible a huge economic boom for the US of unprecedenced scale, not some mythological 'social progress'.
I'd much rather a teenager killing dragons and ogres in a videogame than setting fire to things out of boredom.
More moral myopia, since you're concerned not of the character of the individuals in question, just the myopic measurable effects.
Even if the Orlando shooter had missed all his targets, and there were no measurable death statistics, his methods and motives would've been the same.
Scheherazade wrote:Many millennials are morally apathetic and sheltered.
Better to live and let live than brutally murder those who disagree with you.
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"Living and let living" is a sure way to apathy and guaranteed misery, rather than taking a stand for what's right, plus it's not a matter of disagreeing with me, but with reality, much as if one says "2 + 2 = 5", then 'my opinion' means nothing, they're at odds with the laws of nature.
Scheherazade wrote:Many millennials fawn over whores like Nicki Minaj or Miley Cyrus, which shows just how depraved the mass consumerist view of women and sex is.
Don't claim to be a moral authority,
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I don't, I just represent one greater than me.
You however claimed to be a moral authority in declaring "kindess and compassion" moral absolutes - but who's 'authority' do you represent? Don't be so weak and cowardly, it leads to your own suffering.
Scheherazade wrote:Much of the mass entertainment industry promotes this worldview.
I don't expect you to know much about pick-up artistry considering your religious views.
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You'd be surpised, I know much more about sex and sexual ecology than most slavish porn addicts and sex-obsessed nihilists- in fact I've studied works ranging from Ovid to "Zan Perrion" because of my sociological interest in the subject.
It is widely condemned by the mainstream media since it teaches sexually frustrated young men to prey on women with low self-esteem.
Ha ha ha, your naivete is hilarious. Simply because a mainstream media issues a statement saying "PUA is bad" says nothing of the entire media industry.
Shows like Californication, artists like Nicki Minaj who teach young girls that 'giving up anal in exchange for crack and money' is empowerment, as well as much of the hip hop industry, just to name a view, promote a rapacious world view just like that of PUAs.
You're so gullible you think that just because the media says "oh BTW PUA is bad" doesn't mean they don't make money off of promoting entertainment of that worldview to young men and women.
I bet you think that just because cigarette cartons have disclaimer about "smoking being bad for you", this means the corporations behind it are actively opposed to nictoine addiction to, don't you? Please don't patronize me with your naive worldviews that arise from living in a bubble of "faux progress" rather than reality.