Ethical and Legal Shorthand, a populist slide into anarchism

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Ethical and Legal Shorthand, a populist slide into anarchism
Discrimination
It is absurd to accuse a law of being discriminatory. That is what ethics and the law does and is about.
It has to be shown what the ethical basis of that discrimination is before it can be criticised or acclaimed.
Discrimination in the forms of marriage that are acceptable is what ethics is about, for instance.
The most extreme form of discrimination is considered to be racial and cultural.
In the recent past there was certainly such discrimination with certain peoples accorded superiority over some other peoples. Either as a comment on the current characteristics of those peoples, or – at a greater extreme – as an expression of inborn rank. From the point of view of Altruist society this is no longer acceptable, and all peoples are taken to be equal in their innate capabilities. This is now accepted to the extent that cultures are treated as equal, although it would be logical to assume that some cultures are more sophisticated than others. And it is now even taken to an extreme to treat all ethics or ethical philosophies as equal – that idea undermines all ethical discrimination.
We moved on from such [fascist] discrimination to the idea of equality, and multiculturalism. In this, different cultures were recognised as valuable to humanity, and each culture should be protected in its own regional society. But this was permitted to slide into multiculturalism without any geographical location, and the idea of multicultural societies or countries became the norm.
But even that has now slid into what can no longer be described as multicultural, but into integration. We are no longer discriminatory or multicultural, but an integrated or at least integrating society. That is nationally and globally. Such a philosophy nationally and internationally can barely result, in the long-term, with anything but a global society dominated by whatever ‘races’ or ‘cultures’ happen to be in the majority in the mix. This would be cultural genocide so far as minor cultures are concerned. In any case there would no longer be genuine culture based on social tradition, but mere day to day fashion. The danger is that culture can be interpreted as including moral codes and beliefs, providing a far different global society than anything that may be vainly wished for today.