1.12.15- BTO #15- Judgment- Moral Relativity Slippery Slope? Do - TopicsExpress

1.12.15- BTO #15- Judgment- Moral Relativity Slippery Slope? Do We Have the Right to Criticize Dictatorships? I say Yes! (Saudis Lash Liberal Blogger!) And I also judge those ISIS bastards too, very harshly, not just because they kill people on videos for public relations t.v. purposes, but for the same reason that i loath and judge our own invasion of Iraq, our own school mass murderers, our Timothy McVeighs, our Bull Connors, our George Wallaces and others I do not fear, the Ku Klux Klan and their related movements. We must be the judge against that; cant wait for Jesus or anything else to save us or remind us of our ethical, moral obligation. Some things just aint complicated nor need equivocation, and there is always a bogus reason for brutality and oppression, not being the same thing as self-defense and natural survival, just all done with more lethal weaponry these days. Our nation, while run by equally flawed humans, is morally more righteous, in my view, than those whose very fabric and foundations are totalitarian and autocratic, religious or familial, not the least bit as virtuous in principle at least as our own Jeffersonian egalitarian, secular, libertarian, melting pot pluralistic republic. Now I know that sounds borderline imperialistic or whatever, I dont know, but it is the way I feel, because my interpretation of the establishment of this nation of, by and for the people is damn-near as divine as mere humans of that era, or any era, could have conceived and so bravely executed. Not saying it is perfect, but very nearly so if only as a system that aspires to and promises so much more than it has delivered, and yet by aiming so high, above the means of most of its own citizens to really understand, creates a tension that compels progress and the forward march of liberty and equality. Not saying any of this justifies killing innocent people. Nobody and no nation is perfect and progress is slow; yet our system, besides its ignorance of the rights of the environment and other animals and its susceptibility to corruption by money and other short-comings, rises higher than our individual weaknesses, points us in a righteous direction, as expressed in the United States Constitution. Thanks for (g)listening, RANDTv