{"id":36876,"date":"2017-01-10T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36876"},"modified":"2017-01-09T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:27:49","slug":"the-very-concept-of-a-moral-absolute-is-alien-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/10\/the-very-concept-of-a-moral-absolute-is-alien-to-them\/","title":{"rendered":"“The very concept of a moral absolute […] is alien to them”"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Warren<\/a> calls for moral and ethical resistance against “assisted dying” being accepted in society:<\/p>\n

Through the casual review of polls, over the years, I have become aware that the general public can itself be moved from approximately 80\/20 to approximately 20\/80 (four fingers and a thumb to four thumbs and a finger) by any specious argument, if it is repeated constantly, and the Left are able to impose a fait accompli<\/em> through the courts. Among intellectuals, the swings may be wider and quicker. They are not pendular, however, for once various civilized taboo lines have been crossed, there is no inevitable return, and the only way back is through a field of carnage.<\/p>\n

Today, unlike \u201cyesterday\u201d (i.e. a few short years ago) there is 80 percent support for what goes in Canada under the euphemism \u201cassisted dying,\u201d and everywhere under the older euphemism, \u201ceuthanasia.\u201d As loyal Christians (or Jews, and many others) we must never surrender to public opinion of this kind. Yet we must recognize that it is pointless to argue with the great mass who, in Canada as in places like Nazi Germany, can so easily be persuaded that down is up, and that words now have new meanings. They simply haven\u2019t the equipment to follow a thread longer than the short slogans in which progressives specialize. Not if their moral schooling was defective, leaving consciences deformed.<\/p>\n

People can be \u201ceducated\u201d or \u201ccatechized\u201d or awakened only one by one, and with their own participation. There is always hope, for as Thomas Sowell says, though everyone is born ignorant, not everyone is born stupid. But in practice, they are retrieved from catastrophic error, only by catastrophe.<\/p>\n

At this point in our societal degeneration, \u201cthe people\u201d are obedient to what beloved Benedict XVI called the \u201cdictatorship of relativism.\u201d This is understandable because few were raised in anything else. The very concept of a moral absolute (e.g. \u201cthou shalt do no murder\u201d) is alien to them. At the gut level, they may still individually recoil against an evil, but only if they have watched, and found the spectacle \u201cicky.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Warren calls for moral and ethical resistance against “assisted dying” being accepted in society: Through the casual review of polls, over the years, I have become aware that the general public can itself be moved from approximately 80\/20 to approximately 20\/80 (four fingers and a thumb to four thumbs and a finger) by any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,66,9,53,11],"tags":[360,496,424],"class_list":["post-36876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-health-science","category-law","category-politics","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-euthanasia","tag-morality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9AM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36877,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36876\/revisions\/36877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}