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RE: The 'Magic' to Create Freedom or Slavery as 'Magicians' or 'Sorcerers'

in #philosophy7 years ago

You've blogged about "Good" and "Evil" before and this post tied in to it. In this post, you say that "Ka is a moral essence" with a "moral potential" that we can develop to become better people.

Good and Evil are useful concepts but they tend to be based on what a person or group values.

Lately we've heard a lot about the values of Freedom and Equality. We've also heard new definitions of those values like Freedom means the Freedom to force your sexual fetishes on others or kill your unborn child. Equality means that everyone must have the same outcomes or someone somewhere is an evil racist. These weren't the intended definitions of the people who wrote our Constitution and yet they have been skewed into this new bizarre self-destructive "morality" based on nihilism or complete ill-regard for human nature and reality itself.

A lot of animal behavior is instinctive. I'm not sure that humans are that different. Our morality in the past was based on survival of groups or tribes. As populations grow and individuals are more able to get along without belonging to groups or tribes, new moralities may be necessary.