American morality scam. Part II

In a previous Pravda.ru article entitled AMERICAN MORALITY SCAM (August 8, 2006), I discussed how demagogues, liars and religious hypocrites confine their definition of “morality” to issues involving human sexuality, which, in turn, enables them to ignore, rationalize and excuse the economic exploitation, and even the abuse, torture and murder, of their fellow human beings.

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This tactic is successful for two reasons: 1). There are diverse categories of morality—legal, medical, religious, and business—and they are usually more in conflict than in harmony; 2). There are, according to researchers, three divergent views of morality, which can make one person’s wrong another person’s right.

The first view, fundamental morality, focuses upon basic issues of fairness vs. unfairness and justice vs. injustice. This type of morality carries with it the obligation to “do the right thing” regardless of the situation.

The second view combines law and morality by asserting that people who obey the law in a given situation are, through this obedience, also behaving morally.

The last view argues that moral standards have to be fluid and adaptable to different situations. In a world now witnessing the cruelty and deceit of the Bush dictatorship, and in an America now experiencing the demise of democracy, freedom, human rights and the “check-and-balance” system of government, this view of “morality” has tragically won the day.

But the problem with adaptable morality, at least for those who maintain some semblance of conscience and humanity, is that the underpinnings of fundamental morality can be obscured but never erased. Consequently, throughout history, a plethora of people have, in their declining years when death’s imminence raised fears of eternal damnation, expressed regret for actions they took when power, wealth and selfish ambition made them arrogantly forget that all individuals are constrained by the limitations of mortality.

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