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#morality

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Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈

SEX, CAPITALISM, PATRIARCHY, MORALITY

In a capitalist patriarchy, when sex is a product then women (in general) are for sale. But its a game they can't win, so at least part of society imagines, because then, so at least part of society says, they have become whores, sluts, slags, bikes, holes, meat to fuck, dirty, tramps and cumrags. There are an amazing amount of women on Only Fans and similar sites who HIDE THEIR FACES. Why? You know why. The morality of our civilisation forces women (and others) to become sex objects AND THEN IT CONDEMNS AND JUDGES THEM FOR IT. They are made into good capitalists but also into dirty, unspeakable capitalists. They are fucked both ways. This particularly affects women who are, for entirely dubious patriarchal reasons only, supposed to be more chaste than men. This boils down to simple misogyny when a man might imagine forcing a woman to her knees for his pleasure but gets to call her a cockslut, and value her accordingly, when she is done. Men always win, women can only lose. Such is the morality of standard patriarchal heterosexuality under capitalism. The man is dominant, the woman inferior. Know your place.

#sex#morality#capitalism
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Della Wren

Morality is subjective, changeable, circumstantially dependent, and meant to be a personal belief system, not a shared societal framework. Listen to this weeks’ episode of my podcast to learn a little more about how I see the world and how I think morality plays a role in that world. Please share and subscribe. It would be greatly appreciated!

#philosophy #morality #spirituality

open.substack.com/pub/therebel

open.substack.comThe Myth of Shared MoralityExplore the myth of shared morality, why it's not universal, and how personal beliefs shape our sense of right and wrong in this thought-provoking episode.
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Chamfort

Education must be based on two things: ethics and prudence; ethics in order to develop your good qualities, prudence to protect you from other people’s bad ones. If you attach too great an importance to goodness, you produce credulous fools; if you’re too prudent, you produce self-serving, scheming rogues.
 
[L’Éducation doit porter sur deux bases, la morale et la prudence ; la morale, pour appuyer la vertu ; la prudence, pour vous défendre contre les vices d’autrui. En faisant pencher la balance du côté de la morale, vous ne faites que des dupes ou des martyrs; en la faisant pencher de l’autre côté, vous faites des calculateurs égoïstes.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 5, ¶ 321 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 205]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/897…

#quote#quotes#quotation
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earthling

Morality and Self-Interest Edited by Paul Bloomfield, 2007

Ever since "Know Thyself" was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest. This edited volume of essays pushes forward one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy. Is morality a check on self-interest or is it in one's self interest to be moral?

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#books
#nonfiction
#philosophy
#essays
#morality
#SelfInterest

Can morality and self-interest be understood independently of each other? Christopher Morris, The Trouble With Justice Mathias Risse, Nietzsche on Selfishness, Justice, and the Duties of the Higher Men Richard Joyce, Morality, Schmorality David Schmidtz, Because It's Right Thomas Nagel, The Value of Inviolability Samuel Scheffler, Potential Congruence Stephen Finlay, Too Much Morality Terence Irwin Scotus and the Possibility of Moral Motivation Ralph Wedgwood, Butler on Virtue, Self Interest, and Human Nature Julia Annas, Virtue Ethics and the Charge of Egoism W.D. Falk, Morality, Self, and Others Paul Bloomfield, Why It's Bad To Be Bad Joel Kupperman, Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue Michael Stocker, Shame and Guilt; Self Interest and Morality
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Steve Thompson PhD

Colossal CEO Ben Lamm says humanity has a ‘moral obligation’ to pursue de-extinction tech

techcrunch.com/2025/03/09/colo

The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the wooly mammoth, assured audiences at SXSW that the company has no plans to create a real-life Jurassic Park — lest there was any doubt.

Colossal Biosciences – woolly mouseImage Credits:Colossal Biosciences
#COLLOSAL#BIOSCIENCE#MORALITY
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Greg Johnson

John Calvin, early Calvinist, writes on Amos 8:5. A few rich held the country in famine. Amos asks the rich if God was too harsh w/ them for killing their compatriots with want?

Calvin and Amos held that a rich person could hold people in famine. Today, would we instead blame the “Amoses” of the day for interfering in the deeds of the rich?

How can you hold worship in its proper place, and act in the marketplace with integrity and justice?

LOANNES CALVINVE JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) Calvin's Commentaries Amos "Since then the few rich held the whole people in a state of famine, the Prophet says here, 'Do you think that God deals too rigidly or too cruelly with you inasmuch as ye have hitherto been killing men with misery and want?'"
#christian#foryou#morality
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Richard

This is not a popular opinion, but I have come to believe that social movements do not ultimately bring systematic change. Not be a contrarian, but I think it takes the right individual that sparks the final measure that brings about real, fundamental change. Let me give some examples.

Martin Luther King, Jr. I know he didn't do it on his own, but he was a singular force, and that is authentic.

From fiction:

Gabriel Bell from the famous Star Trek: DS9 two-parter, "Past Tense" and the Bell Riots. Yes, he also very much did not do it on his own, but he was a force to be reckoned with.

John Sheridan from Babylon 5. He also did not do it on his own, he had both an immediate crew and an extended crew, but he was hands on and even died only to come back and finish the job. He ultimately made the decisions that changed history.

I know how generic I sound. I know I seem like I lack faith in the collective. Well, having lived with severe disability for 27 years, yes, I do lack faith in people at large. I know what you are willing to do to me when no one else is watching. I know it takes a single soul, the right person who possesses the qualities that the collective claims to be in favor of, but they are never actually capable of those moral values, not personally, they are not. It will take one leader to bring change. The group cannot do it.

#MLK#Babylon5#StarTrek
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