Command Morality and Moral Relativism
Gagdad Bob, writing at One Cosmos: Let’s Hear it for Dead Amber Males, challenges some of the views he finds in Ken Wilber’s “Integral Politics.” The entire post is very good and exposes some of the fallacies of the Left by showing the errors in logic (usually deliberate errors to mislead) that are required to hold the fallacious views.
Likewise to say that conservatives simply value “militarism” outside aThis next quote from One Cosmos really clearly points out the difference between moral relativism and “command morality.” Command morality sounds like something oppressive and evil - except when I recall that the opposite of some structure (that is top and bottom) to a moral code is some kind of mush where anything is as good as anything else.
moral framework is seriously misleading. Yes, I would like America to
have the most powerful military in the world, for the simple reason
that I want the most moral and decent nation to be the most powerful.
It’s the same reason why I want the police to be more powerful than the
criminals. To suggest that I am merely “pro-violence” would be another
serious distortion. I am pro moral violence and anti immoral violence, a distinction that is often lost on the left. Yes, I want to kill bad people before they murder more good people.
Wilber seems to be treating Christianity with some contempt in the remark about “good ole Biblical injunctions and command morality.” If by command morality he is referring to absolute moral standards such as “do not bear false witness,” “do not steal,” and “do not murder,” then I suppose I am for “good ole Biblical injunctions.” They seem infinitely more wise to me than the morally relativistic blather you will hear on the typical college campus.Gagdad Bob appears to be very comfortable with the concepts of bad people and bad countries (the political things) existing in this world. You’d be amazed at the number of people who don’t think there are evil people in this world, some of whom control whole governments.
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