10-11-2018, 05:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-11-2018, 05:58 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(10-11-2018, 05:14 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: There is no alternative to people acting with basic decency toward those less fortunate.
Well, no. It is part of the red mind set to see only themselves and their tribe. It is what Kinser calls tribal thinking. You care only about yourselves and your own and do not care about what you call basic decency. You reject the idea that all men are created equal, and focus on people most like you. They see nothing wrong with it. Indeed, various elites have worked it just fine for as long as civilization has been going on.
Granted, we see some of the worst examples. Appealing to morality just does not touch some. Swing and a miss.
This is much of what I mean about values shift occurring with a crisis, about how it is easy to see that kings and slaves must fall to the Enlightenment "all men are created equal", but it is less easy to see how the current conservatives are equally wrong in resisting the new values. Still, every once in a while, values do change.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.