Posted by Impermanence on March 12, 2005, at 6:22:38
In reply to Re: Another go... » Impermanence, posted by alexandra_k on March 11, 2005, at 21:50:17
You can understand that the idea "killing and abusing babies for fun is wrong" is relative, which It is and still have morals!! I could never hurt another living thing (apart from flies and earwigs). But I don't see someone who does as evil, I believe it's a combination of their conditioning and brain chemistry that causes them to act in such a cruel manner. I don't believe there is such a thing as good or evil, there just is what there is. Nothing is to be feared, it is only to be understood!! I have a deep inner love and respect for all living things but does that make me good? and let's say Hitler evil? I don't think so, if I grew up with what Hitler grew up with and I had his genes (and we know he was psychotic) would I have run around giving flowers to the Jews, I don't think so. Morals really are relative, I know this yet I still have a standard way of treating others because thats how I'm programmed and thats how that programming effects the chemicals in my brain.
Consider this, in India preteen girls are married off to men their perents choose as young as 12. Over here thats absolutely outrageous to most people and a form of child abuse. Yet over there it's completely normal behavior. That got me thinking if it was standard that everybody was abused as a child and it wasen't called abuse it was called experience, if it was as normal to be touched and touch as it was for your perents to wash you, if kids talked about sex the next day in school in the same breath they talked about toys or whatever they talk about. Would there be a problem? If christianity diden't succeed in making sex a dirty and shameful thing and it was a playful thing we were told about as babies would we still feel the same way. I feel sick at the idea of some bastard touching a child but I also understand thats my conditioning and in "my head" it's an evil, dirty thing. If nobody cried about it because it was something every single person went through and took it with a pinch of salt there would be nobody upset. Just like if every single person on the planet was poor and absolutely nobody had one cent more than the next person, would you ever really want any more???
When they used to burn witches it was a family day out. Everybody would gather together to watch them burn alive. The idea of a crowd of people in the western world watching human beings burn and enjoing it makes me feel sick, but they done it. In the middle east they have public executions and torturing all the time. You can download videos (I'll give you addresses if you want) of hundreds of people stoning a man and woman to death for having sex. People getting limbs cut off for stealing, tongues cut out for lying and on and on, I think you know what they get up to over there, and the crowd goes wild. Thats normal, thats their normal and was ours a copule of hundred years ago!!!
Ideas, philosophies, morals are relative to the people and cultures that thought them up over thousands of years. You can know this to be true and still hold morals yourself as a result of your own conditioning.
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