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Originally Posted by Twosugars
It's not odd at all. The right are amoral and selfish, but they hate being called out on that hence their attempts to ridicule ethical approach to anything
the right dislikes: women rights, sexual equality, foreign aid, universal healthcare, enviroment protection, etc - things that are designed to benefit others or all of us
the right loves: tax cuts, guns, minimum financial regulation, etc - things designed to benefit individuals (only those in a position to benefit, so not everybody)
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Wow... we've gone off the rails if we've all started to paint each other with broad strokes. I know I see people on the right like Brillo, etc who are notorious with their broad strokes (sorry Brillo), but if more and more of us start thinking like this... we're on the wrong path imo.
The right doesn't have a higher moral or ethical authority, and I don't personally feel this way about the left either. For the left, I'm more concerned we're disregarding history when we try to achieve certain things, and ignoring the ill effects on society in the process as "unfortunate side effects" is sad in any case... but there is room to disagree in how to address those side effects... I think.
I've watched a lot of left (well, my generation was raised on it)
and right media. One of the arguments of the right, is that socialism is theft... which to some degree is true. It's arguing someone who earned their way through merit is not allowed to enjoy their own fruits... that because they may be earning it in a way that is "opportunistic" (are they really???), then we have to take large portions of their earnings and give it to the rest of society.
With abortion for example, both sides of the argument would consider their arguments to have the moral high-ground or setting the "actual" standard...
I think if we think we have moral authority because we hold certain opinions, that's quite sad... we don't have moral "authority" for simply our views... as there is no singular moral "authority". I hope, that we own as individuals gain however a reputation of morality... but to say because we truly believe in something, that that somehow makes "you" lesser than "I", it's regressive because we're assuming that the intentions of the person make up more than their actions...
How many people are nasty to each other just because of what they believe? That to me is not a moral behavior... and I wouldn't think higher of them simply because they had better "intentions" (and that's arguable too if they're nasty to others in order to achieve some "moral" end?...). We've become corrupted by our beliefs if we've forgotten the point to having a value system or having any sort of moral guide at all, is how we treat each other as individuals when in our company?...
Anyway, not addressing your words specifically. Some realizations hit me at once is all... and your thoughts brought a couple of things to mind up in my own mind that I felt the need to touch on...