Richard

Peter

Vineeto

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Questions & Objections

Does Actualism Accept/Reject Ethics/Psychology?

Actualists Don’t Care

Morals

Of or pertaining to human character or behaviour considered as good or bad; of or pertaining to the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil. Oxford Dictionary

Morality is a well-meaning concept designed to serve as a guide for people to curb their instinctual aggression such as to be able to live together reasonably peacefully between the recurrent wars that break out. Generally the forced imposition of moral codes and laws works well enough but they do come at a price – a severe restriction of freedom most usually strongly felt at adolescence, and often the cause of youthful rebellion. This rebellion usually eventuates as they begin to see and experience the hypocrisy evident in the gulf between the moral and ethical codes they have been taught and what actually happens in the world.

This rebellion is wrongly assumed to be a search for freedom and at best results in a slight alteration to moral codes with each generation. The famed youth rebellion of the 60’s resulted in nothing other than a switch from Western formal religious morality to Eastern spiritual morality – the emergence of the New Dark Ages. There are as many versions of what constitutes moral behaviour as there are religions or tribal groupings in the world, and that’s a lot.These differing moral values as to what is good and what is bad is the source of so much confusion, conflict and bloodshed and the principle of ‘human rights’ only serves to preserve these differences forever.

These unliveable moral tenets, passed down from generation to generation and reinforced by family, church and state are upheld at the point of a gun by the police and at threat of imprisonment or death by the courts. This system of enforcing ‘civilization’, maintained by carrot and stick, generally does reasonably well to preserve what we have come to accept as ‘normal’ human existence – an endless series of wars, murder, torture, rape, repression, corruption, suicide and despair.