Moral Relativism And The Supremacy Of Some Cultures

This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.

The moral tradition of the West has evolved for 2,500 years, and it hasn't been easy. Would you like to live in a world governed by the Sophists and the Skeptics, who thought that that justice was just convention administered by the strong?

Or much of European history, in which the law came from royalty, whose bona fides were simply being born to the correct parents?

But compared to the rest of the world, we are unimaginably better off. We mostly got rid of slavery starting at the beginning of the 19th century. Take a look at the Arab world today? They still have them and they are in no rush to end the practice.

Our armies are far more civilized than the rest of the worlds' and interestingly enough, also better at war. Yes, that is debatable, but backed by Western economies we will eventually come out on top.

And where would you rather be... Behind the Chinese lines or behind the American lines? Look at Israel, which has more reasons than any other country to respond with total savagery, yet they comport themselves with amazing restraint, often at the expense of the lives of their soldiers.

The problem nowadays is that we have lost sight of the superiority of our culture and have subsumed it in an ocean of moral relativity and non-Western brutality.

Maybe we should return to first principles, and renew our commitment to ideas that used to be axiomatic, but are now up for debate.

Really? Child rape? Murder of innocents? mutilation of children on the alter of sociopathic sexual perversions? Destruction of the individual in service to the state?

These aren't complicated ideas, as Sir Charles understood very well.

That statue is in Trafalgar Square, in the heart of London, and until is is torn down they may have a chance at redemption. But they certainly need a modern Napier. Luckily, America seems to have gotten one in the form of President Donald Trump!

posted by CBD at 12:00 PM

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