Moral Certainty

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The most dangerous of all certainty. Someone driven by a need to do what they think is right and moral. They honestly believe they are helping people in what they do. This certainty blinds those who push it. They can't see anything but what they want, their moral objectives, their good deeds, they're right. Just like those who are too stupid to know they are stupid. Someone with a moral certainty is too certain in their push for morality and righteousness that they can't see the danger and harm it can inflict. Even when the harm is blatant they can't see it.

I believe some members of our government have this moral certainty. They push for public programs intended to help, to make life easier, but in that push they wave aside any hint of harm they may cause because they are right, they are moral, so what they are doing can in no way be bad for anyone. It's like a preacher set in his ways who is incapable of change because it would crumble the ideological and moral world he built around himself. Because of this he can't even comprehend that what he is doing could be negative.

Or they are just assholes and know very well what they are doing.
 
see what I mean? you try to explain away his ignorance, and he fires back with incurable stupidity.
 
He tried to compare their knowledge of philosophy to Hawkings knowledge of the universe and I'm the stupid one?
 
it may or may nrabroad
be the case that absolutes exist. but we can never know it, because we never experience anything without those things being processed by our senses, which are flawed. therefore, humans cant really have knowledge of anything, let alone if absolutes do or don't exist. but if you ask me, they don't exist.
 
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omniprabroad
ent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
—C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock

This is why a powerful government should scare anybody, because this is ALWAYS what happens.
 
How dare you call yourself a randian ethicist and proceed to tell someone what they should desire to discuss!?@!!!!!!!!!
 
given the limits of human reason, i have faith that absolutes do nrabroad
exist. faith must pick up where reason leaves off. they are brabroad
h tools in the kit for humans to acquire knowledge with. whatever little knowledge that is.
 
No, I made an extreme analogy to make the point more obvious. There are most assuredly differences. But it remains an analogy.
 
*scoffs* what a wasted life... I suggest you pick a particular doctrine, a rigid set of beliefs, to give purpose and meaning to your life.. and I happen to know which one is the correct one ha-ha!
 
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