Mob Mentality Reflects Current Moral Mess: Aggressive Emotivism at Charlotte Catholic HS (the rise of boo-hurrah morality)
Mob Mentality Reflects Current Moral Mess:
Aggressive Emotivism at Charlotte Catholic HS (the rise of boo-hurrah morality)
Crisis Magazine observes:
In a recent case in North Carolina, a sweet faced and intellectually accomplished nun came to a Catholic high school to address the students about human sexuality. We don't have the text of sister's talk, but from the outrage expressed she not only criticized homosexual actions, but was down on divorce and sexual sin............
.......Why has the moral debate in America descended to emotivism? Because where there is no objective truth there can be no intelligent debate. If there is no such thing as right and wrong, then it is pointless trying to have a discussion on what is right and wrong. All that remains is your opinion against my opinion and therefore the one who best uses the tools of emotional blackmail and bullying will prevail.
Nor will their prevalence stop at bullying their foes into silence. What began as emotional blackmail will continue into active use of force. They will move from emotivism to activism. The lawsuits will be followed with other forms of financial, legal, and finally physical force. In the face of emotive violence the government takes over and decides what is legal, and what is legal is not necessarily moral, for any idea of morality has long since disappeared. When the only morality that remains is that which is legal, then those who make the laws determine what can be done or not done. At that point what is legal will inevitably be that which pleases those who make the laws, and when the law is made by those who benefit from the law, the triumph of emotive totalitarianism begins.
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