Glenn Greenwald: Nothing Trump Did Compares to the 'Moral Evil' of Bush's and Obama's Wars

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

As if morality was even a thought, let alone an issue, for most materialistic, vain, narcissistic Americans.

I feel any drop we had left of, or care for morality was gone when DesmondIsAmazing went mainstream and got famous for being a little boy that strips at gay bars at 3 am cross dressing as Gwen Stefani and hanging out with the “NYC Club Kidz” of the 90’s and making YouTube videos with them (one of which went to prison for murder) where he admits to knowing about both ketamine and barbiturates and how you take them too.

Millions of people loved that shit. Those people are supposed to give a damn about morals? What about the people watching Netflix’s Cuties?

[–]horatioherbert 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Morality is a swindle

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Would you please clarify by expanding on what you mean please?

[–]horatioherbert 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The phrase is from Samuel Butler and he questions morality by asking what does it get you? A good night's sleep? The ability at old age to look back and say you were a 'good person'? I believe there is more to it, since a society without an agreed set of morals will tear itself apart eventually. How long can society function if everything and everyone is a lie? see Soviet Union

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Morality is only a swindle in the absence of identity. A being with identity has cohesion to it, and as such is incapable of contradicting themselves, which makes them not necessarily "moral" in the traditional, artificial sense. However, this inner cohesion gives such a being uncanny strength, and also set parameters for their behavior. Said parameters are surprisingly close to, not the practice of Christianity at all, but the advice from Christ himself.