hang in there… I am trying to assemble thoughts into
some coherent pattern…
we have a loss of religious judgments… for a thousand years
judgements was based on a religious consideration…you are acting
immoral based upon religious considerations… but our modern age has
repudiated that understanding… we no longer judge based on religious
grounds, in a religious context… we have secularized judgements…
we feel that moral issues such as homosexuality and aberrant
behavior have a secular basis… but we have found that homosexuality,
for example, cannot be judge to be “harmful” or “dangerous” or “sinful” outside
of a religious context… given our secular nature and secular judgements,
we have, upon purely secular reasons, to allow such “sinful” actions as
homosexuality and drug use…
So, we judge actions based on a secular reasons, not religious…
we have social, economic and political structures, ism’s as it were…
I believe, not on a religious basis, but on a secular basis that
ism’s such as capitalism and communism should be judged
as we would judge “Moral” behavior…think about it…
we see a couple fucking on a park bench and we would make a
moral judgement… and call the police… and we can make individual
moral judgements on individuals… I see a man beating a woman
and I make a judgement about that action, a moral judgement…
but can we hold groups and corporations and even a society by the same
judgement as we would hold an individual accountable?
In New York, a CEO see’s the books going into the red and so he
decides to fire 10,000 people… it isn’t anything personal, it is
this “hand of god” in economics that make this judgement
and the CEO is simply the acting agent of the “hand of god”…
now in the eyes of conservatives, this action, this economic
decision to increase profits has no moral judgement… it is
not a moral statement or judgement… it is a impersonal, objective,
dispassionate judgement which has no moral implications because
the judgement is so impersonal, “lay off 10,000 people to increase
our profit margins”. How can that be judged morally?
it is an act that is justice because it is done equally without regard to
any accidental properties like race or gender or the color of a person’s skin…
and we demand justice to be equal and there is nothing more equal then
laying off 10,000 people regardless of their status……
it is an institutional, group decision done for the best of the group…
and as such, it lies outside of our moral judgments… it cannot be judge
based on such moral decisions that we would use on individuals as the one’s
making out on a public bench…there is no good or evil based on this
decision of laying off 10,000 people… it is simply good business
and good business is not judge on any criteria of morality…
good business has only one criteria, to make money…that is
how we are suppose to judge business, based on profits/money, not
on moral judgments……… but we have an issue and we have discussed
time and time again, the judgement of business based solely profits is
the negation, the dehumanization of human beings and their values…
business has made the gaining of capital more important and more
vital then the health and safety of both customers and workers…
if we practice the nihilism of business and put money/profits over
human beings and their values, then the laying off of 10,000 workers
to increase profits is clearly nihilism… the practice of making
profits more important then customers and/or workers………
and based on this idea, we can judge as immoral the business
practices that allows business to value profits/money over
human beings, customers/workers…businesses do not escape
moral judgement because their decision claims to be objective,
impersonal, dispassionate… those businesses practices are
nihilistic and must be viewed that way…
if the act of acquiring money/material goods is to be view as nihilistic,
then then the entire capitalistic system is nihilistic because the entire
system is predicated upon the acquisition of profits/money… yep, the
entire system is nihilistic because the entire system depends upon the
negation and dehumanization of human beings in order to make profits.
and we can judge the entire capitalistic system based upon this nihilism…
and liberals have judge the entire system as being negative, wrong,
damaging……. and conservatives do not believe that… for conservatives, corporations
and businesses operate within the “hand of god” thus ensuring corporations will do
the right thing and the “impartiality” of the system will help
corporations do the “right” thing…
but how can businesses do the “right” thing if they are nihilistic and
pursue profits over people?
so how do you judge businesses and corporations? are they to be judge
morally? Can they be judge morally?
Kropotkin