On 15/01/15 13:01, Tim Watts wrote:
On 15/01/15 12:41, Huge wrote:
On 2015-01-15, GB wrote:

I can't see anything intrinsically wrong with laws banning alcohol

Fortunately, you're never going to be in a position to enact them.


here

I think I see GB's point - he said "intrinsically". I don't think he was
suggesting sharia law was an OK thing to enact in England. But if some
other country wants to, that's their business.

The only way out of the moral maze is to understand that there is no
absolute arbiter of morality. In fact assuming that there is and using
it to justify repression of other peoples views is the great evil in the
world that comes from religions.

If you realign your moral compass away from absolute directives and
towards 'what works in this locale's socio-economic context' to promote
survival of that socio economic context, you can see that so called
'liberal Christian' values when applied in a European context work
better than mediaeval moralities better suited to a herding society in a
semi-desert ...

At which point the moral maze is solved: those that want to live like
semi-literate cattle herders should go to places where that is the
viable lifestyle. If they want the benefits accruing from a modern
industrial civilisation, they should adapt to the mores of the locale,
or **** off.

Because if they import their morality and impose it, they will in the
end destroy the society they import it to. And the socio-economic engine
that allows them to live there.

Perhaps that is the aim of the people who fill their heads with such
nonsense.



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