The Irish came out of me just as temptation tapped me on the shoulder.
It is that easy to throw up months of discipline to succumb to the very thing one has been resisting. A momentary madness leads to the discarding of repetitive denial and virtuous reward. I resisted that one but no doubt the devil will tap me on the shoulder again.
I am glad it was just a pork sausage and not rum or cocaine!
Many people believe that right and wrong are fixed absolutes – they are incorrect. Culture dictates norms and ethics and thus morals.
So yesterdays virtues could become today’s sins and vice versa, of course.
Laws become obsolete and new ones replace them. Homosexuality was a crime and a sin, now it is opportunity for accelerated advancement in some parts of the world. It is still a death sentence in others.
Ritual genital mutilation is still practised in Africa, but attracts imprisonment elsewhere. Child marriage is still prevalent in some parts of the world but sex with young women could be about plunge us into WW3!
Michael Jackson is still revered by millions.
We cannot take the Bible literally, because yesterday’s messages may not be appropriate (ooh! So woke!)
We cannot mimic the conduct of most of our leaders, even ministers are corrupted by their assumed power over congregants.
So what do we teach our children?
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you is a good one.
Look after the environment.
It’s not as good as it looks… think before you leap
What do you think? …if you do think about this sort of stuff?
sillysocksonfriday 
desiderata still feels valid, sensible and relevant.
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desiderata still feels valid, sensible and relevant.
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That is a good reponse – maybe I should post it!
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Moral relativism, put simply, is the belief that right and wrong depend on personal opinion or cultural perspective. It sounds tolerant. It flatters our desire for autonomy. But it crumbles under the force of its own contradictions. If all morality is relative, then there can be no condemnation of anything, anywhere—not genocide, not slavery, not rape. If morality is just a cultural costume, then the Nazi uniform is no worse than a business suit, and the gulag is no worse than a schoolhouse. Relativism, when stripped of its disguises, defends nothing and permits everything.
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I am gratified by the deep consideration that you have put into my spur of the moment burble.
It bears discussion. Is it not our argument about social media’s impact on morality?
The point I make about child marriage and the modern fixation in the western world with paedophilia is an extreme example of “one man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
Genocide a perpetual wrong – what about Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Slavery was an economic pillar – it’s relatively new ‘sin’, etc.
Perhaps I should try AI for some further legs to my response? 😉
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