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Title: Taboos and Morality, a quick and short analysis. Author: Shae Wallace Date: 6/22/2022 Language: en Topics: morality
Alot of taboos in society are not opposed on any rational basis
But when you question these taboos
You get the most visceral of responses but with no actual reason behind
the response besides "it's morally wrong"
Which is not rational.
Morality is in fact the reason itself.
In this sense,
The Morality on certain taboos is self justifying
"It's bad because it's bad"
Most of the time this phenomenon doesn't matter, harmless.
However, it can take an actively harmful form.
Such as the discussion on Kink at pride. Where this kind of moralizing
became queerphobia.
This kind of Moralizing, I would say is the prevailing ideology of our
society.
The ideology/Philosophy of "Self Justification Morality" as I will be
referring to it
Given the actively harmful role this Self Justification Morality can
take, it would be fair to say this kind of Moralizing, must be
combatted.
The Fascist has no greater best friend than this form of morality.
This form of morality can go both ways,
It can also take a form of "it's good because it's good"
The Fascist sees utility in both forms, "The Degenerate is bad because
it's a Degenerate"
"tradition is good because it's tradition"
Making this kind of Moralizing, genuinely a Fascistic form of thinking.
Now, let's go back to something I previously said "it's usually
harmless", I lied, it's always harmful.
For it creates an environment where it is impossible to criticize
taboos! Impossible to criticize systems even! You cannot even criticize
concepts as they too have become taboo to criticize. (Example:
intelligence and sanity are nearly untouchable due to this moralization)
The only way to negate this moralization, is to, reject any objective
forms of morality and embrace fully, the idea, that all morality is
wholly subjective.