Many would wonder what I could possibly contribute to a discussion on morality and ethics. I listen to atonal music, view pornography, and am an atheist. One would think I would be an amoral libertine, somebody who is uncivil and unruly. I enjoy chaotic paintings and consider myself to be a postmodernist. I also consider myself classy, so classy in fact, that I surpass the immense amounts of classless people I see in my day to day activities.
That might sound like a rather pompous statement to make, but I feel like I have the right to say it (I wonder if having an inflated ego is classy?). It isn’t hard to be classier than the majority of people in our ethically bankrupt culture. Our entire society is built around control of others, dictating what they can and cannot do. All the while, we build an emotional wall, one in which no empathy can penetrate. We isolate ourselves into groups, and battle each other trying to serve our own interests (cough democracy cough).
If you find homosexuality disgusting, then we shouldn’t let them get married. If we find carrying firearms to be undesirable, then we shouldn’t allow it. If we find drug users lifestyles to be deplorable, we must outlaw drug use. All of these regulations, plus many others, are simply classless and immature.
Since when has it become mature to try to control others lives? And this is through force no less, as if you try to carry an unregistered firearm for example, you could be imprisoned and even killed. And who pays the peoples salaries, who come and kidnap you and throw you in a cage for violating these laws? The police. And how do the police get their funding? Well, they steal it through taxation.
To put this into perspective, it would be the equivalent of two small children playing in a sandbox. Sam, an obese 9 year old American kid, discovers his playmate Percivel has fashioned himself a rather fancy sandcastle. Sam is outraged, as he considers this sandbox to be his territory, and his property. Sam is a schoolyard bully, and he claims monopolistic privilege over the sandbox. Percivel’s sandcastle simply does not meet Sam’s structural standards.
Sam walks up to Percivel and demands he deconstructs his sandcastle. Percivel refuses, and Sam has no recourse, as both are rather fat American 9 year old kids, and Sam could not beat up Percivel without help. So Sam goes to a group of smaller schoolkids, and steals their lollipops under threat of atomic wedgie. Sam then goes to his friend Martin, who is hitting balls at the batting cage. Sam pays Martin with the lollipops, and tells Martin to rough up Percivel for him if he fails to comply with the new sandcastle building standards. Sam then returns, and proceeds to ask Percivel to deconstruct his sandcastle once more. This time, Sam is accompanied by a bat wielding Martin, and Percivel obliges.
In this scenario, Sam represents the state, the smaller schoolkids represent the taxpayers, Martin represents the police, and Percivel represents a citizen who just wants to live their god damn life in peace (that was sort of a shitty allegory).
So I put it in terms of schoolkids, because that’s what we are dealing with here. A bunch of little schoolkids fighting it out on a playground. And this is actually an alarmingly accurate representation of how our society functions. A bunch of immature kids, fighting over a sandbox, trying to tell people what kind of sandcastles they can build, what kind of plants they can smoke, and what kind of sexual relationships they can have.
In conclusion, you might call me classless because I listen to atonal music and watch porn, but I think taking your clothes off on camera is a bit more classy than killing people for money (anybody else noticing all the soldiers complaining about the federal government spending freeze? I thought they were fighting for freedom and the American way or some bullshit?), or arresting people for smoking a plant. And I reject quite a bit of your sick, classless so called “morals” that are used to justify democracy, victimless crimes and crimes against the state.
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