INDIFFERENCE TO EVIL

Philosophy for Morons, Vol MCCXXXVIIIIX----Note: Blogger will no longer accept Word Perfect transfers without wrecking the appearing print. I had to repub the entire thing and all your comments are gone. Sorry

The street version of The Enlightenment goes something like this: "Hey! Don't tell me what's right and wrong. There ain't no God until you can prove it to me, and since you can't produce that pot dream and have him do something awesome, I'm gunna do whatever I want, and you got nothin to say about it. I ain't going to Heaven, but I ain't goin' to no Hell neither."

This attitude is what many post Enlightenment philosophers expected if the Age of Reason [The Enlightenment] were to obtain and replace religion. Without a universal moral platform on which to stand and decide matters there would be no way for an entire society to decide on what was right or wrong, good or evil. Taking it further, most took the position that removing God would result in a society that was indifferent to evil because it would be incapable of deciding what evil was.

What we see now in Europe and among the atheist American Left is the Indifference to Evil the unenlightened philosophers warned of. Oh yes, let us feed the hungry, help cure the sick, toss some money to the slobs of the world, but to actually do something that might risk life and limb to change things is out of the question. "Don't bother me while I'm doing drugs or grabbing some stray ta ta while my wife takes care of the kids," sort of sums it up. We should all remember that only Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, out of all the world's smart guys, had the moral clarity to stand up to the worst tyranny in history in terms of gross murders, gross imprisonments, death penalties for daring to speak out, and suppressions of all freedom. All the Left wanted was simply to contain evil and let millions die rather than be inconvenienced by standing up for freedom for those victims within the Soviet sphere. The Left knew, without lifting a finger to try to change things, that Communism would last forever and there was no use risking anything to get rid of it.

The evils as the Left sees them (sort of, more or less, um kind of), include eliminating the causes of inconvenience like babies still in the womb that prevent women from making as much money as men, not convicting people of crimes til they are "rilly rilly bad,"deciding "more or less" that some murders are OK [especially those committed by women against "abusive" spouses, boy friends, or "significant others"], all adultery is to be "expected," [promises only mean something til they are not convenient], and most especially the Left views mass murders committed in other countries as none of our business. They are just different cultures deserving of respect: in North Korea children are actually eating other children because they are starving---but they have the "BOMB;" millions were deliberately starved to death by Mugabe, but the Left, always led by Blacks most interested in their own entitlements at home, ignored it. Now that everyone's starved to death American Blacks praise a movie--a movie--- called Hotel Rawadna---how's that for safe?; "Darfour,? oh how awful," while someone changes the station inside their BMW.

We are now facing off with Islam, a religion that absolutely knows what good and bad are, what is evil and what is good, and intends to force that view on everyone in the world. Muslims have a platform to stand upon when they decide what is moral and immoral; Allah has told them. The American Right is the only force in Western society that is willing to make a moral judgement on what is good or evil, right or wrong. It is no accident that this segment of the world's population is religious and believes in God, and are sure of God's word.

I confess to be in the spineless camp. I thought Iraqis, due to their 5,000 year past, didn't want freedom. I was obviously full of it---nothing new there; I blame it on the expensive drugs and cheap whores; what is your excuse?---and had all the usual reasons. Most Iraqis, most Lebanese, and most Arabs have proven that they want freedom if they think they can get it. Up until a few weeks ago they saw themselves in a hopeless situation. Now they see freedom. The pictures of the 899,999 Lebanese (including some total babes) have to be an eye opener. It took some foreign dog like Sharansky to point out the power of freedom to us all; to those of us who will listen. That means our indifferent Left; that morally equivalent foggy eyed cadaverized gang of slobs laying around San Francesspool and other places; the MoveOn dot Org types who used to chant in the 50's that they'd "rather be red than dead," who now shout that they'd "rather be high than die." And especially their teachers in our Universities who have even become anti-Semitic in order to please a new and equal culture; none see anything worth fighting for other than the next government grant to study something safe. Freedom to the Leftys of the Free World means "nothing left to lose," thanks Kristofferson. Indifference to mass murder, torture, gang rapes of women in other distant places mean we mind our own business and let the other "cultures" alone. Who is to say we are better than they? God is dead. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights are relative; it's something we really don't need to get all worked up about. If we'd shut up about it nobody would want all that "gar-bahj" anyway. Gay marriage is more important than a bunch of Third World black people wanting freedom, whatever that is.

Everyone needs to read our Bill of Rights once a year. Everybody living under tyranny thinks we really mean that crap. If we don't mean what it says we should repeal the whole thing. They cause a lot of trouble. They, together with our Constitution, make us the most dangerous country on the face of the earth. When somebody pinioned by the cuffs and irons of tyranny reads the words: "We hold these truths to be self evident (meaning any moron knows these truths)", the world's droppings will always hit the fan. We are a menace to anyone and everyone who takes freedom away. We, because of our Bill of Rights hold up mirrors of shame to all who surrender their freedoms to a government. Kings and dictators hate us and want to destroy us. The Europeans who have given their freedoms away to a super government hate us too. They are supposed to. That is what our system is for.

Lefties want a place to get high and pretend nothing is happening. They will remain indifferent to Evil.