Authoritarian morals aren’t really morals: absolute obedience to creepy authority figures and absolute intolerance to anyone who dares to disagree, plus the puritanism that is oh so useful to creepy authoritarian types, allowing them to destroy personal autonomy and privacy, giving the state a weird near monopoly on sex and appealing to the most virulent of bigots, the ones, genocide scholars tell us, have the biggest “purity” hangups and are the most easily motivated to violence.
You want morals? Most religions and many atheists ascribe to a real morality of mutual respect, compassion and concern for justice for the poor, the ill, children, those with the least power in society. On sex, they believe in respect and responsibility and also respecting others’ privacy and autonomy.
Authoritarian morals aren’t really morals: absolute obedience to creepy authority figures and absolute intolerance to anyone who dares to disagree, plus the puritanism that is oh so useful to creepy authoritarian types, allowing them to destroy personal autonomy and privacy, giving the state a weird near monopoly on sex and appealing to the most virulent of bigots, the ones, genocide scholars tell us, have the biggest “purity” hangups and are the most easily motivated to violence.
You want morals? Most religions and many atheists ascribe to a real morality of mutual respect, compassion and concern for justice for the poor, the ill, children, those with the least power in society. On sex, they believe in respect and responsibility and also respecting others’ privacy and autonomy.