Balance is innate from birth. Babies' wobbly legs, when learning to walk, soon give way to sturdy, balanced, erect pillars.
So also with moral balance. Babies learn right from wrong with maturity.
Sometimes it is taught. Other times, it is acquired by experience or study. Usually it is both taught and acquired.
Morality is condign ethical balance. One knows what would harm or help another by self-reference from youth. Certain animals have the same sense.
Immorality is the absence of ethical balance. It is also a skewered ethical balance motivated by greed or gain; or. such balance is swayed by social abuses, unjust laws, whim or caprice.
"Condign" means appropriate for the occasion. With respect to ethical balance or morality, condign is what is proper in any given circumstances relative to evolving time and place.
To know what is right and wrong, quite differs from doing what one knows. This difference brings about pangs of conscience, which are salved by myths, prejudice, and delusions in quest of peace. Like a rancid pond of still waters, a new balance is reached with oneself, though it be foul; and a new self-rationalization is reached though it be wrongful, hurtful or even racist!
Racism is wrongful, hurtful, immoral! Thus, white racism against blacks is purely the absence of ethical balance.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
THE ETHICS OF RACISM
Balance is innate from birth. Babies' wobbly legs, when learning to walk, soon give way to sturdy, balanced, erect pillars.
So also with moral balance. Babies learn right from wrong with maturity.
Sometimes it is taught. Other times, it is acquired by experience or study. Usually it is both taught and acquired.
Morality is condign ethical balance. One knows what would harm or help another by self-reference from youth. Certain animals have the same sense.
Immorality is the absence of ethical balance. It is also a skewered ethical balance motivated by greed or gain; or. such balance is swayed by social abuses, unjust laws, whim or caprice.
"Condign" means appropriate for the occasion. With respect to ethical balance or morality, condign is what is proper in any given circumstances relative to evolving time and place.
To know what is right and wrong, quite differs from doing what one knows. This difference brings about pangs of conscience, which are salved by myths, prejudice, and delusions in quest of peace. Like a rancid pond of still waters, a new balance is reached with oneself, though it be foul; and a new self-rationalization is reached though it be wrongful, hurtful or even racist!
Racism is wrongful, hurtful, immoral! Thus, white racism against blacks is purely the absence of ethical balance.