The Wages of Moral Relativism - (the legacy of Terri Schaivo's death)

OPINION EDITORIALS.COM ^ | MARCH 28, 2005 | VANCE McDONALD

[CHARLITE]

America is now a nation ruled by the amoral and fallible will of men. They are called lawyers. The warning has been coming for decades. The current case involving the litigated and legally mandated death sentence of Terri Schiavo has now confirmed our current fate. This should be no surprise.

For at least fifty years we have been indoctrinated with the specious argument that a traditional, rational and common moral code of conduct is bourgeois and unsophisticated. This journey of cultural madness has culminated in massive societal confusion regarding whether right and wrong behavior even exists. This is unless a particular concept is in social vogue as being fashionably acceptable. In which case, principles of right and wrong suddenly spring into legitimacy, i.e., the popular notion of moral goodness of the choice to abort nascent human life. The doctrine of moral relativism now rules.

The fruits of this insanity have now created an ethical vacuum within America that has allowed “the law” to become the de facto cultural moral compass. And, of course, there must be those high priests in black robes who will interpret and define how “the law” will be applied to each of us – as they see it. They are the new arbitrary and indisputable judges subjecting each of us to “the law” according to their individual amoral position. And this wholly subjective and upside down wielding of power is supposedly for the benefit of society. They profess in their sanctimonious intellectual superiority that they, the wondrous oracles in suits with degrees from pristine humanist temples of academia, will show us the way.

The case of Terri Schiavo has borne all of this social psychosis out. The fully indoctrinated moral relativist lawyers are now firmly ensconced. Because “the law” is now the ultimate dictate, the lawyers are now the equivalent of the Inquisitors. The American people and their representatives are now subject to rule by the great black robes. Their hubris is complete and dripping.

If moral common sense versus moral relativism was the foundation of the legal search for justice in the Schiavo case, the vacant husband’s conflict of interest and hearsay testimony would be abandoned and Terri Schiavo’s fate be handed to her loving parents. At the least, a new trial would be ordered post-haste. After all, this is a capital matter.

But the religious fervor accorded the dogma of moral relativism within the legal profession has now rendered impossible the objective and ostensible mission of lawyers and judges to administer justice in a rational, fair and timely manner in this case. Indeed, the automaton lawyers are so mired in their own sterile machinations and legal processes that by the time anyone reads this piece Terri may very well be dead.

Where will it end? Will “the law” eventually allow general hearsay testimony to mandate mercy killing en masse – for the good of society? The cultural sickness of moral relativism has transformed lawyers into the devil’s advocates. America’s citizens are both enablers and victims.

The Schiavo matter is one more warning. Worshipping an amoral perception of social conduct has throughout history allowed “the law” to lead the way to tyranny. From the emperors of Imperial Rome, to the religious dictatorship following Rome’s demise, to the subsequent monarchies of Europe, to the terror of the French Revolution, to the mass crimes against humanity of V.I. Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Tojo, Mao, Castro, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and on and on, the sanctity of “the law” without the guiding influence of moral common sense has always been the direct conduit to despotism.

Lacking the guidance of that still small voice of moral clarity, the principles and devotees of “the law” cannot rationally support “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Our current societal path of amoral cultural conscience will eventually lead to total enslavement by the dictator barristers of the bar. They will be enabled to mandate at will the final solution of how and when we live and die.

This cannot stand. The concept and acceptance of individual and societal moral relativism must be consigned to the toilet of history. Let this be the legacy of Terri Schiavo.

Vance McDonald is a social and political commentator living in Austin, TX.
libertyjournal@aol.com

[cwhig]

America is now a nation ruled by the amoral and fallible will of men. They are called right-wing radio talk show hosts.

[isthisnickcool]

For the "lower" federal courts Congress can make more courts or say there will be less of them tomorrow. Congress also controls their funding. The president signs off on it. If Congress really wants to slap the judiciary they have ways to do it.