Peter: Ethics and morals are the basis of the laws that various
societies and religions impose on its citizens and followers in order to try to curb the worst excesses of instinctual malicious
behaviour. Ethics generally refer to what is regarded as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, while morals deal with ‘good’ and ‘bad’.
Many people in each generation, seeing the failure of ethics and moral
principles, have set out to question and examine the ‘flawed’ ethics of the previous generation firmly believing some noble
and significant advance is being made in a quest to find the answer to the human dilemma. Thus, we lurch from one ‘ism’ to the
other, swing from one hoary ideal to the next, dust off yet another ancient concept that has already proven useless and proclaim
it as ‘the Solution’. The New Dark Age comes complete with its own set of ethical platitudes which are but the same old ‘rights’
and ‘wrongs’ of generations passed, dressed up in current clichéd jargon. Ethics remain firmly in the ‘nice idea, but ...’
category. To live one’s life believing the ethical rules of others as to what is considered right and what is considered wrong
is the antithesis of freedom. Surely it is time to try a new approach to the ‘nice idea, but ...’ failure.
With diligent questioning and factual investigation it is possible to
replace the banal ethical rules of right and wrong with a common sense classification as to what is ‘silly’ and what is ‘sensible’.
This simple classification allows a freedom from the society’s imposed restraints of conforming, ‘fitting in’, being ‘right’,
‘toeing the line’ or the opposite of not conforming, rebelling, being ‘right’ and ‘protesting’. This same ruthless
questioning of ethics, morals, values, traditions, beliefs and psittacisms will inevitably lead one to be free from instinctual
malice and sorrow – free from the very need of ethical and moral restraint.
Then, in a single bold action, one steps out of Humanity, out from the
control of others to an actual freedom in the actual world. One then becomes autonomous, unique and anonymous – free from the
Human Condition.
