Moral Compass

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Why?

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Well…?

Reality

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Reality is strange.  

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Craziness

 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FEEwkPDqJ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

So they can’t convict a mother for engaging in premeditated murder of her 3 children, but they convict a mother of letting her kid go for a walk.   What is happening?

Seems Reasonable Enough

 https://substack.com/@worldviewbulletin/note/c-328489902

 

"So here is something of a working list to offer some general guidance for any worldview.

Truth: Is it factual? Does the worldview take seriously empirical facts from history and science? On this score, the Christian faith is certainly checkable, emphasizing the importance of signs, eyewitnesses, and historical truth—things that were “not done in a corner” (Acts 26:26). For example, it insists that if Jesus’s tomb was not empty, we ought to abandon the faith (1 Cor. 15:32).

Usefulness: Is it practical? Does it take commonsense or everyday experience seriously? Can it be consistently lived out, or do the practicalities of life defy it? If I claim that the physical world is an illusion, for instance, I still must live as though it is not. Or is it like Richard Dawkins’s naturalistic Darwinism, which he admits can’t be lived out when it comes to politics, ethics, and getting along in society? One must become an anti-Darwinistic naturalist to do so.

Logic: Is it logical? Does the worldview take reason seriously? Does it value coherence? Or is it self-contradictory—like relativism, which presumes to be absolutely true for everyone? Presumably, postmodernists who insist that “coherence” is merely a human construction will nevertheless attempt to give a coherent reason for thinking this! Or consider how the naturalist Daniel Dennett considers consciousness to be an illusion. But how can this be? To experience an illusion requires consciousness . . ."

 

Love W/O Repentance

 "Love the sinner, period"    Just don't tell them or expect them to "go and sin no more".   Affirm them in their sin, and only offer them a love which doesn't include correction or repentance.

Well, that makes perfect sense.   

The idea that it isn't possible to love someone and hate their actions is simplistic and absurd.  

Strangely enough, if one watches the ASPL, the alternative is to hate anyone who disagrees with you, try to silence them, and make up or grossly exaggerate their "sins".   

 

When Puppies Are Valued More Highly Than Children

 

"If Lindsay Clancy had strangled three puppies because voices in her head told her to, not a single person outside that courthouse would be holding a sign that says "same, Lindsay."

In fact, every single one of those women currently defending her would be calling for the maximum sentence. PETA would be outside the courthouse. Social media would be coming after her with torches and pitchforks and there would be no GoFundMe Campaigns.

Three puppies, and she would be universally condemned as a monster. Three children, and suddenly she's just an overwhelmed mom who shouldn't be held criminally responsible.

Now before the bad-faith rebuttals start… yes, postpartum depression is real. It's serious. It deserves compassion and treatment.

But these women outside the courthouse are conflating postpartum depression with postpartum psychosis, and those are not the same thing.

While Clancy was treated for anxiety and depression, it's worth noting she was never diagnosed with psychosis or auditory command hallucinations until after the killings took place.

Yes, millions of women experience postpartum depression. And almost none of them murder their children. Holding up a sign that says "same, Lindsay" doesn't just minimize what she did. It insults every mother who struggled with PPD and never harmed her kids.

But what really disturbs me about this moment is what those signs reveal about where we are as a culture.

We live in a society that will cancel someone for mistreating a dog on a viral video (as they should) but will rally behind a woman who killed three children if the narrative is framed correctly. We have reached a point where human life is valued less than animal life, as long as the right emotional story is attached.

When the public affords child-killers an ocean of narrative nuance and relatable pity that they would never dream of extending to an animal abuser, something has gone deeply, fundamentally wrong with us as a culture and society."

 

Tyson Zahner