The first time I had my eyes opened to this sort of thing was eighth grade (1974). That was the first year they didn't give us a History class, but insteasd presented something called "social studies". It was a lot like history -- but it diverged down certain unexpected pathways.
The lesson that stuck in my mind (I believe it's a classic and well known) is the father with the sick child who cannot afford medicine. Should he break into the pharmacy and steal the medicine? Would that be an immoral act? Or -- conversely -- would it be an extremely moral act? Our teacher laid it out: your intentions are what matters. Stealing may be the right thing to do if there is a good reason why you are doing this.
From such a "lofty" moral position, there is nowhere to go but down.
*There is nowhere to go but down.*
It will be like in the days of Noah...just like Jesus said.
[[Our teacher laid it out: your intentions are what matters. Stealing may be the right thing to do if there is a good reason why you are doing this.]]
Yep- very slippery slope- their ‘lofty high moral reasoning’ knows no bounds- by their reasoning, it should then be ok for me to rob a bank so that “I don’t ever fall into financial difficulty whereby I’m forced to steal for a living”. My ‘honorable intentions’ are to avoid poverty which would spur me to criminal activity (Of course nothign is deemed ‘criminal’ to these high and l;ofty subjective moralists, because there’s always, always some underlying ‘condition’ that excuses their immoral behavior. Their subjective morality simpyl does not recognize that their is a universal objective morlaity- there are no absolutes i ntheir minds- only ‘interpretations’. Just liek those opposed to the death penalty and approve of abortion- they pick and choose whatever they like, then try to force their subjective morality on the rest of us as htough it were an objective irrefutable truth- They reject objective morality, then turn right aroudn and declare their subjective morality as ‘objective truth’- they are so freakin inconsistant in their warped little minds that they can’t even see how hypocriticle they are- flip flopping is a way of life to these folks- and they are determined to ram their moronic reasoning down hte throats of our kids because kids are the only ones who buy their crap these days
Government schools just love filling our children’s heads with false dilemmas. It’s what they do best.