Post by NFA on Mar 3, 2021 21:36:24 GMT 8
[ This is a supposed 12 minute read but it is a 3 week thought process ]
Why They Cheat-a look at the behavioral differences between Team Right and Team Left
Brent E. Hamachek Jan 27
www.brenthamachek.com/post/why-tsh
Why They Cheat-a look at the behavioral differences between Team Right and Team Left
Brent E. Hamachek Jan 27
www.brenthamachek.com/post/why-tsh
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Under what ethical system or construct do you define yourself as ethical?
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Hobbes was right!
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What can be done (if anything)?
Having identified the problem, this becomes nothing more than an exercise in intellectual self-pleasuring if no sort of solution or idea to improve the situation is offered. Here I will offer a somewhat admittedly feeble attempt to help correct this dilemma we face when moral relativism is combined with an absence of a sense of duty.
One possibility is to try to generate conversions, either to Scripture, the Constitution, or both. These objective standards are not understood by most people, even those who might frequently reference either. To add the presence of one or both of these sources into the consciousness of an American is to increase the likelihood that they will have their natural tendencies inhibited by duty. This can help break the connection between the want to cheat from the act of cheating.
The other possibility is to try to change their calculation. For any moral relativist, their notion of right and wrong behavior simply lies between the weight of pleasure and the weight of pain. Change those measures and you change their calculations. How you might do that is impossible to say specifically as it would relate to each person as an individual unit. It is worth a try, but you are on your own in terms of specifics relating to plan and execution.
Under what ethical system or construct do you define yourself as ethical?
...
Hobbes was right!
...
What can be done (if anything)?
Having identified the problem, this becomes nothing more than an exercise in intellectual self-pleasuring if no sort of solution or idea to improve the situation is offered. Here I will offer a somewhat admittedly feeble attempt to help correct this dilemma we face when moral relativism is combined with an absence of a sense of duty.
One possibility is to try to generate conversions, either to Scripture, the Constitution, or both. These objective standards are not understood by most people, even those who might frequently reference either. To add the presence of one or both of these sources into the consciousness of an American is to increase the likelihood that they will have their natural tendencies inhibited by duty. This can help break the connection between the want to cheat from the act of cheating.
The other possibility is to try to change their calculation. For any moral relativist, their notion of right and wrong behavior simply lies between the weight of pleasure and the weight of pain. Change those measures and you change their calculations. How you might do that is impossible to say specifically as it would relate to each person as an individual unit. It is worth a try, but you are on your own in terms of specifics relating to plan and execution.
The key to it all is to remember that we are not inherently any better than are they.
We simply might behave better.
Recognizing that we are more similar than we are different might help us to focus on that very small but critical difference.
They say the DNA of a frog is very proximate to that of a human, and yet the frog and the human bear little resemblance to one another.
In that case, just a few strands of DNA provide the difference.
In our case, duty is that piece of socio-psychological DNA that is missing from the Team Left frogs, confining them to a lower, improperly behaving life-form.
We simply might behave better.
Recognizing that we are more similar than we are different might help us to focus on that very small but critical difference.
They say the DNA of a frog is very proximate to that of a human, and yet the frog and the human bear little resemblance to one another.
In that case, just a few strands of DNA provide the difference.
In our case, duty is that piece of socio-psychological DNA that is missing from the Team Left frogs, confining them to a lower, improperly behaving life-form.