The fundamental moral hazard is enticement away from safe grounds.
The mythology of our day is a siren song. Out on the submerged rocks and ripping currents stands this glorious vision that if we fail to act, evil men will hurt us. It portrays the greatest threat as some massive wave of evil blown across the sea towards us, a veritable tsunami of oppression and destruction. We need to arm ourselves, or we need to disarm all the crazies. We need to make abortion illegal, or we need to make it safe. We need to protect our children from queers, or we need to be sure everyone has a fair chance at the American dream.
I posted yesterday that the entire foundation of our political system is hopelessly evil and that dreams of changing things to make the world better were all phantom lies. You cannot build a mighty castle in the clouds; you cannot make wine by stirring sugar into sewage. Everything has been tried and you can no longer deny that there is nothing in Western society that will support moral good. It is entirely fake. Your only hope of moral good is to build in the face of Western society with something real.
Had Adam and Eve minded their business, they’d still be living in Eden. Instead, they reached out for something they didn’t need and couldn’t use for their mission. Never mind why it was there; that’s the wrong question. It was there, and it’s all around us today.
Perfection is not the issue. Just stop all this hullabaloo and take a moment. Use what little moral you sense as it exists right now. Figure out what you should be doing. I’ll give you a hint: It absolutely must be limited to those things you can do by yourself as an individual. Your mission lies within you. Find it. While it will inevitably lead to you reach out to others, it must never, ever rely on how they respond. Anything that demands participation from others is not your mission. It might be your job on the human scale of things, but it’s not your mission.
The point is, once you commit to it, your vision of what it is and how you should do it will improve. If you do what you should, enlightenment must inevitably increase as a part of your commitment. That’s how moral truth works. You steadily gain in awareness and understanding as you remain faithful to the mission. Meanwhile, all the protection possible from moral hazard is wrapped up in that. Your mission is your moral safety.
All the other apparent threats sold as moral hazards are bullshit.
It’s not just your freedom, but your duty to passionately embrace your moral social orientation. It doesn’t matter if you are instinctively liberal or conservative, radical or reactionary, populist or libertarian; promote your best understanding as persuasively as you can. But the second you propose coercing others through human laws to live by your vision, you become at that moment the evil you decry.
When someone comes to you with a convincing tale of moral threats coming down on you that requires you get on board our you’ll get hurt, they are lying. They may not know any better; most don’t. That’s not your problem. Don’t believe them. The fundamental nature of moral hazard is suckering you into something you can’t use and won’t work in the first place.
Oh sure, rally the voters and change the laws. How long with that last? And just how good will enforcement be before those in power corrupt the whole thing and it ends up being an entirely pointless gesture? How long before the opposition rallies their troops to change that issue, or chase some other partisan threat because you tied up your resources somewhere else? Humanity cannot be herded in any meaningful way. Our political system is a total sham and cannot be fixed. Stop being such a dumb-ass.
The answer to averting the coming disaster is not rushing out with the right package of defenses or escape mechanisms. The answer to averting disaster is stay where you belong because it isn’t aiming at you. Stay within your moral boundaries and you won’t be harmed. You won’t like it, but the sinister threat is not what’s coming at you, but what you can be suckered into. The Enemy of Souls is trying to distract you. Don’t fall for it.
Don’t reach for that poisonous fruit.
