EPISODE 47: OBJECTIVE MORAL STANDARD

What is your objective moral standard? This simple question is the most important question we all need to ask ourselves. Moral standards exist as a framework for the bonds of our civilization. They can determine what is collectively or individually accepted as right and wrong. Every conversation, every interaction, and the consequences thereof, are all dictated by moral standards. Our moral standards can unify or our moral standards can divide. Our laws and justice systems, are at their base, institutionalized moral standards. Moral standards can offer salvation or our moral standards can facilitate chaos. What is right? What is wrong? With a subjective moral standard these questions are answered by the individual and are as diverse as we are many. To you stealing is wrong, but to a thief taking what you want from others is fine. To me murder is wrong, but to an abortionist it is healthcare. To the violated, rape is unforgivable, but to the rapist it was a good time had by all involved. Brutalizing Jews should be seen by all as unacceptable, but to Hamas it is a righteous crusade against infidels. This is the world of the subjective moral standard. This is chaos and you cannot build a healthy, secure, prosperous society on a subjective foundation that can shift on the whims of an individual or group of individuals. Where’s the fun in playing a game whose rules change to advantage one side over another? How is it justice to condemn a man because you feel strongly that he’s guilty? How can leaders effectively represent the people without adhering to strict and uncompromising objective moral standards? For answers to these questions all one need do is look, without bias, at the current state of our world: violent conflict, mental illness, rising crime, economic disparity, poor leadership, division, discrimination, drug addiction, unsustainable public health infrastructure, and societal regression. We are embroiled in an unprecedented spiritual war with only two possible outcomes; survival or extinction. 

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