Is it wrong to judge how people behaved in the past based on today's morals?

Jul 18, 2018 10:43:28 GMT FilmFlaneur said:

Jul 17, 2018 22:12:47 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

Lugh where does your awesomeness stem from? You will not convince an obstinate and inflexible mindset like Flaneur, even though he prides himself on his supposed and questionable logic. Great point also about enforcing 'good' laws within oneself. 

OK then, Cheese: since you have been unable elsewhere to describe to me the obvious advantages to all of an inequitable society, perhaps instead you can here come up with some for a society when one subjectively chooses 'good' and 'bad' laws to obey or not, or where law can apparently be considered 'irrelevant'.

Great point also about enforcing 'good' laws within oneself. That just stems down to attitude and behavior and having respect for each other.

Which, one notes ironically, is just the golden rule, a condition for living - given as a law for living by Jesus.

Laws even break their own laws, because they are not malleable. 

One is not even sure what this means. Perhaps you have not heard of laws which can be applied to varying degree?

we need to realize that each individual is their own law and higher power, not what some abstract and dubious someone or something institute tells us to do.

Which is fine in theory - until the individual's own 'law' and 'superior power' turns bad. Serial killers for instance often justify their actions through their supposedly higher philosophy of life which makes law irrelevant and/or while invoking their own rules over racial/sexual superiority. But I think you really know that.

Your avatar is very fitting. A puppet, or is that stooge! How ironic!

You do realize that subjectivity is an abstract and cannot be explained in concrete terms. It something that doesn't exist. Laws are an abstract and someone\something else's notion and perspective of what things are. I may or may not choose to buy into it or agree with it, but the bottom line is, I don't need others to tell me how I should act and think and if my behavior is not contravening any asinine written law, then it is irrelevant to my state of being. If I break a written law, it is also irrelevant, because I didn't pay heed to it. Consequences can ensue, but that is just part of the systematic game and depending on the severity of any action, most of it is bullshit. It is ultimately meaningless, manipulating and insidious, for an institution to tell me how dare I not follow it's golden rules and pay heed to it's self-aggrandizing and overbearing self-importance. This is kind of like how you express yourself though. It's no wonder you are disempowered. You give it away to others, that you think know better. How pitiful!