i) The way you have chosen to live is degenerate. The way you live, that
you have not chosen, is degenerate. Your life is degenerate. You are
degenerate. You are not, you degenerate.
ii) You must not think that. You must not think about that. You must not
think about thinking about that. Anything at all that you think about could
lead you into thinking about that. You must be constantly on your guard,
lest you should find yourself thinking about that. You must never think
about anything other than whether or not you are thinking about that.
iii) This is fantasy and not real. It is the enemy of reality, a struggle
against reality that is only not futile in fantasy whereas in reality it is
futile. This is fantasy and it is a wound in reality. Reality bleeds from
the wound left by fantasy, and is enervated by it. This fantasy will
consume all of reality, including the wound left by itself in reality: even
the enmity between fantasy and reality will become a simulacrum of real
conflict. This is the direst injury of all that fantasy can inflict on
reality: to deprive it even of conflict, even of the reality of its own
loss of reality, its bleeding wound.
iv) Humanitarian intervention: to see cruelty not only in wilful acts of
violation where there is a victim and an aggressor, and no compact or
understanding between them, but also in self-mutilation, sheer mischance
born of bad human odds, your faltering or default away from the cherished
ideal of nonviolent bliss. Cruelty is in your failure to love yourself as
Jesus loves you. Cruelty is in your failure to be a good citizen. Cruelty
is in your habitual vices: smoking, drinking, masturbation. These indicate
a low self-esteem, which nobody deserves: you are an aggressor against
yourself, and your cruelty is shocking. It is time to set you straight. You
are sick at heart, and you feed your sickness with heavy metal music and
sickly German novels. We'll show you.
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gloss (perhaps superfluous):
i) is that morals consign any demographic that lives and chooses (perhaps)
a life other than what is considered to be the moral life to perdition, to
an abject status which places it in the path of extermination.
ii) is that morals seek to place restraints on the imagination, on the uses
of intellect, and that censorship of any kind is infinitely contagious.
Note that i) and ii) are "slippery-slope" arguments: censor or judge to any
degree whatsoever, and you are already on the road to great horrors and
idiocies. In which case I would say we are all without exception already
there.
iii) is that morality is threatened and extinguished by fantasy, because
fantasy threatens and extinguishes the ability to discern evil, the
negative, the enemy etc.; thus, to fantasize is according to the moralist
(or this moralist) to commit the worst of all possible crimes, what
Baudrillard calls the perfect crime. Morality is thus anti-human, since to
be human is to daydream.
iv) is that morality violates sovereignty - that of the individual, or that
of the foreign nation - and mandates authoritarian interventions into the
slightest details of individual lives. U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq / the
prurient sex police: are we against both?
Counter arguments solicited.
Dom
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