or manifest destinyNick_A wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:51 pmDo you really believe in ethical moral systems. If so, how do you explain the power of the demagogue?Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:34 am Nick_A wrote:
Reason is amoral but there are ethical moral systems and ethical personal acts based upon reason.Reason is amoral. It defines a relationship between premises and conclusions based on these premises.
True, a robot bases his acts upon reason but we are not talking about robots but natural men who are by nature sympathetic.
The mobs participating in the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and the genocide in Sudan didn't seem so sympathetic. Collective humanity is governed by the need for prestige; not ethical moral systems. That is why we need scapegoats to blame for what we are.The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. Karl Kraus
-Imp