There's this really funny - or just downright offensive, uneducated, ill-informed, malicious - view some people have:
- that those of their contacts who are happy and willing to pass judgement on other humans and human collectives - companies, political parties, associations, nation-states -
- in conventional moralistic terms - that some people and collectives are better morally than others, can be of generally stronger moral fibre, can make better decisions than others judged by some objective and generally accepted moral code -
- are idiots, naive, need to change their diapers, simply haven't had enough life experience or are behaving irrationally.
It is THOSE really funny, or just downright offensive, uneducated, ill-informed, malicious people to whom this is addressed:
FUCK OFF.
I am prepared to make tough decisions, difficult judgements. I have a lifetime of experience and realised VERY long ago that people and collectives are simply DIFFERENT from each other, including not just in terms of their interests and concerns but also their own moral fibre. There IS such a thing as a universal morality. Nobody needs to be the joke that is the Lawful Good Paladin in Dungeons & Dragons - we are all sinners is a charge I readily accept - but there are greater and lesser degrees of compliance to this universal code of human morality in different individuals and groups of individuals. Of course everyone and every group can and does change through time, but at any given time, there shall be for example, better nations and naughtier nations, and it is those who REFUSE to judge who are the very epitome of evil.
The reason why is because the evil ones rationalize their evil by claiming that everyone else is like them - that there is no difference between individuals and groups of individuals - that everyone acts to benefit their own selfish individual or collective interests and the ends will always justify the means.
When the evil ones apply this rationalisation, they give themselves a kind of imaginary shield with which to defend their actions. No universal moral code and no need to rank humans and human collectives by reference to such a code - "we are all the same, you and I" - means, no limits on what they can do to get what they want.
The evil ones use this shield offensively also, of course, to attack those who are brave enough to call a spade a spade, to call them out on their actions against the universal moral code and to state quite explicitly when, where, how and how egregiously they have failed to meet the standards of that code.
To said evil ones: FUCK OFF.
You are the ones who NEED to get a kindergarten education and failing that, to be ELIMINATED if needs be. But don't worry. I believe in a universal moral code. So ELIMINATED simply means that you should go to jail - for life if necessary depending on the seriousness of your wrongdoing - so that you can rot there while learning the hard way - through quiet and rigorously enforced isolation - how the world becomes over time, a much better place without you ruining things.
