It’s The Morality, Stupid!

Deborah Venable

08/01/02

I can only imagine the eye rolling and impatience that meets each and every new article that is tapped out by concerned folks every day trying to get the point across to a society that has become a moral cesspool, but I’ll add another one anyway. To the modern, enlightened, group think community of human souls who think that problems can be bought off or legislated away, do you have brains? It is obvious your human spirits are in sad repair, but do you even have brains that work at all?

There is a reason why those of us who grew up before the bottom fell out of the moral compass keep recalling those times with a feeling of desperation at the challenge we face trying to get a society that has been crafted from a hollow conscience to face the idea of individual commitment and responsibility. We know that the path to human freedom is charted on a moral course - pure and simple.

Truth cannot be bartered away for privilege nor conscience bought with law without losing the essence of humanity. Scholars have been debating the roots of morality for centuries, and nothing has been proven to the satisfaction of the other side. Transcendentalists will continue the argument with empiricists as long as humans walk the earth, and morality will take a back seat to both arguments unfortunately.

It has been said in many different ways that America’s Founders were able to cover all the bases of possibility for the origin of human morality when they put together their declarations and laws of this land. They were brilliant thinkers indeed, but they also knew their reasoning would be questioned in the future and put to the test – and so it has. Now, the basic concept of human freedom goes by the wayside many times as empiricists and transcendentalists use the same evidence to support their views. This does not make for a more moral human society, but instead excuses immorality.

Quite simply put, free will is sustained only by believing that it is a naturally occurring gift from God – not that it is a biological body part. That it needs to be nurtured to grow in the right direction toward a freedom loving morality is obvious if one concept is accepted: a human baby is born innocent and totally conscienceless. The learning process either installs that conscience or leaves a fertile ground for evil to grow. It is quite true that brain disease can render a person unable to possess a conscience, and that would tend to support the empiricist view, but for one simple fact – without the presence of these afflicted individuals, we would have no base knowledge of supreme human compassion. We also can never say that such an affliction will not one day repair itself. Without the existence of the worst of the worst, we could not appreciate the best of the best or seek healing for all of humanity. We would just discard the “culls” and think nothing of it. This phenomenon of humanity comes from a spirit not controlled by the physics of brain cells.

With all this said, we can see how society has “evolved” through empirical thinking to believe that life quality is determined strictly by biology, and that human life can be conscientiously terminated for reasons of convenience. The more that is accepted, the further away from any kind of morality we move. Healing and preservation of life is being determined more by privilege than compassion. Moreover, even the beginning of human life is being cultured in ever increasing numbers in Petrie dishes instead of by wondrous chance. Ethical thinking is left out of scientific reasoning, and as man considers himself to be in total control of his own reproduction, he demands the power to determine the duration and value of life. Morality is slipping as society is “evolving.”

Nothing “controls” morality more than the dependence on man’s government. We cannot whine about crime in the streets and corruption in the hierarchy without accepting a decline in morality as being the cause. So, why do eyes roll as the concept is repeatedly pointed out?

Why is free capitalism sinking into a quagmire of corporate corruption? It’s the morality, stupid! Ethics and morals removed from the capitalists’ playbook by a government bent on ever-stricter controls and punishing taxation has muddied the minds of honest profit takers. Why have the three branches of government become the people’s worst enemy? It’s the morality, stupid! Ethics and morals in politics offer no carrots to the runners. Only representation of a world-view that tolerates the intolerable, anti-individual importance will succeed and be rewarded. Question the integrity of socialism and you can’t win a race for Dog Catcher!

Keep on supporting things like a “woman’s right to choose” to kill her own baby for any reason and you will keep on reaping the crop of dead morals. Keep on accepting judgments against Constitutional law and you will keep on reaping the crop of communism. Keep on rolling your eyes at the idea that morality is in the eye of the beholder and you will keep on reaping the crop of chaos.

Newsflash! Individuals determine whether or not they will embrace morality. It cannot be legislated, and it should not be discounted.

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