The Hypocrisy of the Immorality of Morality

 

Fred M. Fariss

 

 

     The moralist is arbitrary, opinionated, judgmental and authoritarian. The hypocrite is phony, ignorant and naive. Most people are unaware that to take a position of morality - immediately  invites them into a position of immorality. In most cases, stands on moral issues - unknowingly - also, takes a position of an antithetical position on the very issue that they are against. This occurs because of the ignorance of the law of opposites.

 

     The laws of nature (the universe) are not moralistic. A poison snake is not good or bad. The snake naturally produces venom of which other organism cannot cope with -  upon contact. To moralize that the venom, characteristic of the snake is bad, would be to add to the nature (essence) of the snake something, that in fact, does not exist. Non-venomous snakes are not good snakes where venomous snakes are labeled to be bad.

 

     The idea of morality is an invention of human beings in their primitive state. The need for explanations and approval drives humans beings to create a system of morality that provides ready answers to those needs. Eventually, the moral system is elevated to the status of religion (the ultimate authority).

 

      Now comes the great question. Which moral system is superior to all moral other systems i.e., which system is the ultimate right or wrong? The Ten Commandments? Hammurabi=s code?  Islam?  Humanism? Which statement from which of these religions should be placed in our public schools? One of them? Or all of them? AIn God we trust@ - which God. Would many people be offended if we were to change the motto to - AIn Allah we trust@. After all, Allah means God. This is where the conflict of the ages is. One cannot have a democracy and cater in word to a specific religion. In a democracy, separation of church and state is absolutely imperative if the government is congruent to the principles of a representative process. Otherwise, favoring one religion above others is an exercise in totalitarianism. If we follow that route, we need to return to our original position and place ourselves under English rule and law.

 

     Furthermore, which moral values placed upon a given context or circumstances is the ultimate declaration of what is valid or invalid - true or real? Morality is usually determined by a select and collective group of people who are bias toward a religion or political position. In this context, the morality is more of opinion and judgmental attitude rather than a statement of observation as to what is. The observation of Awhat is@ is an ongoing fluid state. In contradistinction, most moral systems tend to be more framed toward an absolute conclusion.

 

     An illustration of the hypocrisy of the immorality of morality is the contradiction between the issue of abortion and the many unjustified wars that the U.S. has been involved in for the last fifty years. To take a valid position on a given subject necessitates that a person be consistent in the application of the proposed principles to every situation in particular.

 

     To take a stand against poisons snakes as being evil (bad) will necessitate that one take a stand against all creatures who possess the characteristics of being poisonous - otherwise - the hypocrisy.

 

     To say abortion is morally wrong because of the sacredness of human life and not apply the same principle to the Korean, Viet Nam, Desert Storm and Iraq wars - where thousands of young men died in the prime of their lives, is a contradiction and hypocrisy of any declaration that human life is sacred. Those who are so militantly opposed to abortion of the fetus, to be consistent, will need to be as aggressively opposed to the lost of human life in wars that were spurious and not justifiable.

 

     The pain of abortion that occurs in post natal situations of war is greatly felt since there is conscious awareness of the experience of death. Just think about it, fifty-five thousand men died in the Viet Nam war - post natal abortion! They did not have a real choice.

 

     There are many other situations that foster post natal abortion in which the people suffer slowly in the coming of death. Think of the presidents who refused to provide funding for research for AIDS - those who refused to provide funding for prescriptions drugs for the elderly - those did nothing to stop the wars that had no legitimate bases for their existence. All of these participated in abortion - post natal abortion - taking of life after birth. This kind of abortion is as immoral ( to use the word) as abortion before birth.

     In the silence of the operating room - in any abortion clinic - anywhere in America or in the world, there is no drama unfolding like it is on the battlefields where human lives in their prime suffer consciously - as they died - for some bogus idea of saving America. If abortion is the violation of the sacredness of human life - then post natal abortion - (death after birth) is of the worst kind.

 

     The President sits in his oval office as Commander-in-Chief, with a stroke of his pen, he can designate thousands of men and women to post natal abortion - death after birth. On the very same day, he might be the sponsor at a fund raising political rally, where, he with the fervor of an religious evangelist, preach against abortion of the fetus before birth, all the while he is ignorant of his own participation in post natal abortion as a way of life. He would be the first to defend the war or wars. He could do that without guilt. It is the hypocrisy of the immorality of morality.

 

Postnatal Abortion

 

      The greatest high crime of all is postnatal abortion. This kind of abortion occurs when the spirit of the essence of a person is killed off through denial in a failure to recognize the true essence of the person as a human being. It is a vicious operation where the essential innards to the intrinsic nature of every person of the individual are excised by the cruel disregard for those attributes that are so innate to the intrinsic nature of every person. Every human being who has arrived on this planet via the birth canal has experienced the horrible and tragic assault upon their humanity in the form of denial, discount, discredit of those characteristics that give credence to the person who we are by nature. To deprive a person of the attributions of his essence is to reduce him to an existence of the living dead who suffers from an imposed disease of being broken, crazy or sick.

 

     What is so alarming about postnatal abortion is that it is accepted to be the normal, natural process, looked upon as a manifestation of true reality of the world we live in. Whole systems of philosophy have been developed to define, maintain and support the principles, dynamics and perpetuation of postnatal abortion. For children, and later on, adults, to suffer the consequences of postnatal abortion is of little concern to those who openly and blatantly believe and practice the principles of postnatal abortion. Sad as prenatal abortion is - the fetus only suffers a short time - and then the incident is over! But for the person who suffers from postnatal abortion, the suffering is for a lifetime of  40 - 80 years of existence.

 

     All one needs to do, is to look at himself, or look around himself at others, and he can readily see the scars of the afflictions of postnatal abortion. One need not look to those who have been labeled Amentally ill,@ he needs to look to that vast majority of those who are labeled Anormal@ to discover that the application of postnatal abortion is epidemic.  However, the experience of postnatal abortion is so commonplace with its devastating infliction, that only a few recognize its presence among us.

 

     Everywhere among people is manifest the symptoms that are generated as a result of postnatal abortion. The symptoms which are commonly felt by human beings are worthlessness, lovelessness, weakness, helplessness, mindlessness and hopelessness. The killing of the human spirit results in a disconnection from one=s essence and contact with those natural attributions that are so peculiar to our humanity. The philosophy of postnatal abortion is built upon an interpretation of moralization of a world view of explanation that is a denial of the natural process of what is because it is. The philosophy of postnatal abortion imposes upon the definition of the nature of human beings, a presupposition that humans are intrinsically broken, crazy or sick because of something they did collectively via a representative in the initial stage of development of the human race.

   

     Is there something defective about the nature of a human being? Or is the defect functional as a result of the postnatal abortion? Because human beings have been exposed to the postnatal abortion, they are acting out the denial which they experience because they are disconnected from  making contact with their essence and consequently with their own attributions of their essence. Are the attributions lying dormant, or being used in a way that maintains the denial? Is the essence of human beings immutable? Is the behavior of the symptoms of denial and the acting out of presuppositions that humans are broken, crazy or sick, a manifestation of the affliction of postnatal abortion? Is it not true that people do only what they know to do? Do parents in particular and the public at large, knowingly and consciously, participate in the actualization of postnatal abortion? The answer is a resounding - no. But the irony of it all is, that those who crusade against prenatal abortion and the death penalty, at the same time are participating in postnatal abortion because they know nothing else to do. Like begets like.

 

     What are some of the practical ways that postnatal abortion is promoted? Everyone is born into a natural symbiosis (co-dependency) with their parents. In every instance, the natural symbiosis is cultivated into a neurotic symbiosis. This is accomplished by a disregard for the autonomy of the person and failure to teach him to be responsible and accountable to himself. Most people are ignorant as to their power to make a choice about choices. This is because they were never given the opportunity to choose independently for themselves. Cultivating a dependency upon other people to make choice is a way to foster co-dependency. The pivotal issue is around Aauthority.@ The person never learns to acknowledge and accept himself as the ultimate authority on anything. Children are taught that personal worth is based upon image and performance. From the beginning, everyone is into competition - for the purpose to cultivate personal worth. Independent thinking is the crowning glory of every human being because of the wonderful mechanism of intelligence we possess to do objective evaluation of information. Mindlessness and the consequent behavior of being a Atrue believer@ are the fruit of the killing process of postnatal abortion. Just because a person is, an Ahonor student@ does not necessarily mean that he is in charge of his intelligence to do independent thinking. Often being an Ahonor student@ might mean that it is an indication of being a mental robot who gives the Aright@ answer that someone wants to hear. The philosophy of postnatal abortion kills the power, choice and pleasure of sexuality, by first, moralizing it. Secondly, by departmentalizing sexuality into being presented as a part of one=s life, rather then an expression of life, equal to any other expression of one=s life. In the philosophy of postnatal abortion, sexuality is channeled through the filters of image, gender roles, social roles and social institutions that rob sexuality of its generic components that are peculiar to the whole of the person. Furthermore, sexuality is paralyzed, from its spontaneous expression by its separation from one=s autonomy and association with obligation, duty and morality which leads into a stance of alienation from the opposite sex. Because of the contamination of information about sexuality, through the principles of postnatal abortion, the person is led into a denial and alienation from their own body, as if, the body itself is evil and therefore should be suppressed.