Armadillo Contour.

I scrawled this in a notebook last year after an English professor I had said that morals are necessary for a state, nation, or any form of civilization to survive. Which got me thinking about how actually, if an appropriate level of fear could be instilled in the populous, morals wouldn't need to even be considered. Then I wrote some more and eventually came up with this. I found it today while looking through a box of papers and I thought I'd share it since it's about time for a new entry.

On The Subject of Morals

The issue of morality has been hotly contested for years, whether morality is a relative or flexible entity or whether what is moral and what is not is fixed and unchanging. I charge however that morality is nonexistent, that it is only fear by a different name.

After all, the things we have deemed to be immoral are simply the things that humans have a natural fear of. Murder is immoral because we fear our own death or the death of others close to us, lying is immoral because it is a form of betrayal which we fear, and thievery is immoral because we fear a loss of profit or of our material possessions. Slavery is immoral because we fear our past and because we fear our own oppression, homosexuality is immoral because we fear difference.

The adherence to the things we currently label as moral is furthermore inspired by fear. Human beings stick to the teaching of their religions because they fear Hell and the wrath of an angry God, causing a lack of faith to be deemed, immoral. We deem breaking the law to be immoral because we fear imprisonment, shame, death, and loss of profit.

However, this raises another query, if we deem all things that cause us fear to be immoral, then should not the very act of deeming something immoral be immoral in and of itself. After all, to enforce the immorality of any act under this theory, one must first find something to make others fear the act. (E.g. wrath of an angry god for non-believers, death or imprisonment for murder, or the shame of being branded a liar, etc.)

Anyways, with that said...though perhaps unfinished, I'd like to announce to the whole one person who reads this that I'm making another blog where I'll be exclusively reviewing CD's I find for cheap, or that I already own. Which essentially means I'll be going over music that hasn't been new for years.

Oh well, it seems like a good idea at this time.