Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Being a moral police?

Some people think that our ulamaks should not try and be our moral police. That each of us are accountable for our own morality. I agree, that we are accountable for our morality. But, I would also like to point to the fact that the degree of a person's ability to educate themselves to be accountable and to be moral depends almost exclusively on the programming they have been receiving. Each of us are a catalyst to another. For a person with programming Set A, saying profanities is rooted in a different motivation from another with programming Set B. So, even if Set A person will not go on to develop other harmful or negative behaviour or associate with harmful and negative peers, Set B may not necessarily follow same. 

Thus, I think there are things which require an authority to set a precedent. If everyone were to go about policing themselves, they would not be promoting good or higher values because that would be considered, 'judging others'. So, we leave everyone to judge for themselves, which I think is the same thing as leaving kindergarteners to their own devices. 

You may think you are not a kindergartener. Just like a  kindergartener thinks they don't need an adult telling them all the time what to be and how to behave. If you are truly enlightened, you will see there is a need for a higher, stronger, authority to set precedent. Without rules, there is no civilisation. 

People are worried that once these ulamaks start on their crusade of telling us what to do or what not to do, they would go all the way and bring us back to the dark ages. But are we not bringing ourselves back to the dark ages too with the decline in our ability to steer using the path of good? Like i mentioned in my previous blog, there is no absolute evil, only a lack of Rightful Understanding of Goodness. 

I am confident the ulamaks cannot bring us back to the Dark Ages. Because tyrannic ulamaks will be answerable to God. And God will give His people the power to overthrow tyrants. People are worried it would be too late and we should prevent that. But I am saying that is the worst case scenario. Of course we are all now more enlightened, that we would be able to draw the line when the ulamaks cross them. But we should not get so paranoid about authority trying to impose some moral rule upon us. Without rules there is no civilisation. 

Yes, we are all accountable for our own morality. But the rest of the world we are connected to, is also responsible for the programming that we would have obtained which helps us shape this morality we are so proud to defend. The rest of the world needs some yardstick to adhere to, and that is why we do need Moral Policing of a certain degree. 

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