Ideas Have Consequences. Extreme Ideas Have Extreme Consequences Such as Destruction of Society

PatriotandLiberty ^ | 9/23 | Brian Godawa

[spirited irish]

In 1948, American scholar Richard M. Weaver published a book entitled Ideas Have Consequences. In it, he argued that the decline of Western Civilization was rooted in the philosophical rejection of the notion of absolute truth. This worldview ultimately had devastating effects on western art, education, and morality.

Five years earlier, the Oxford Christian academic C.S. Lewis wrote a book called The Abolition of Man, in which he discussed the consequences of higher education rejecting objective value and natural law. He likened the self-destruction of society believing such ideas to the removal of the very organs of our humanity. “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[muir_redwoods]

I’ve wasted time arguing with (typically young) leftoids who assert there is no objective truth nor any absolute morality. I’m gentle at first suggesting that, if I can prove even one absolute moral truth will they accept that they are wrong. The smarter ones agree, the ones who are limited to parroting what their professors told them ALWAYS waffle.

I then simply correct their entire world view by stating the following;

Rape is always wrong.

I can justify killing in self defense, or stealing to preserve life or lying to protect myself or someone else. All manner of ordinarily “bad” acts can be justified in extremis except rape. There is no situation wherein rape can be justified.

[FarCenter]

“Rape is always wrong.”

As a statement that may be always true. But definitions vary.

Is it “rape” if a husband forces sex on his wife? In the past, and still among some cultures, the answer has been “no”. But attitudes have changed.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I’ve wasted time arguing with (typically young) leftoids who assert there is no objective truth nor any absolute morality. I’m gentle at first suggesting that, if I can prove even one absolute moral truth will they accept that they are wrong. The smarter ones agree, the ones who are limited to parroting what their professors told them ALWAYS waffle.

I then simply correct their entire world view by stating the following;

Rape is always wrong.

I can justify killing in self defense, or stealing to preserve life or lying to protect myself or someone else. All manner of ordinarily “bad” acts can be justified in extremis except rape. There is no situation wherein rape can be justified.

Why don't you ask them about "white supremacy?" They don't seem to be relativistic about that.