Posted on 11/19/2023 5:12:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
Common to tyrants of humanity is that their ideas of social justice, having no ground in truth, make their relevance to justice approach zero.
From time to time some in positions of power who claim to know better than all the rest of us act aggressively to silence those who hold to the truth, as to life itself. (The two, need it be said yet again, are vitally related.) Among such power-wielding know-it-alls the world has witnessed some of history’s worst traitors and tyrants, whose blot on the history of humanity is currently being ignored again at peril of another round of tragedy for millions of people worldwide.
Common to such tyrants of humanity is that their ideas of social justice, having no ground in truth, make their relevance to justice approach zero.
Alas, there are no “red pills” to truth, painful or otherwise, for those who want to escape from a fictitious “world matrix.” (Reality is wider and deeper by far than anything concocted by human minds.) But there are truth-to-power insights against falsehood regarding those human rights that we associate with social justice. That they may appear retrograde, perhaps revolutionary, may be because truth has no expiration date and is ever the sworn enemy of falsehood, no matter what form it takes.
Although the following bullets regarding social justice are routinely ignored by alleged progressives, they will not go away:
- Life is sacred.
- The natural family is central to a functional society.
- Right and wrong are not determined by voting, because:
- Changes effected by majority vote are not necessarily improvements to society; for example:
- Tampering with core human values brutalizes people and helps bring down civilization.
- Playing god via eugenics, euthanasia, abortion, social engineering, genetics, or however else, is ultimately destructive of....
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It is a mistake to expect progressives/leftists to have any core values that conservatives would recognize.
As it is likewise a mistake to believe that you can reason with leftists, or coexist with them peacefully.
We have nothing in common and no shared goals with “progressives”.
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