“When civil liberty are expanded for every groups rights what happen to morality it ends!”

January 17, 2020

“When civil liberty are expanded for every groups rights what happen to morality it Ends!”

Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. 

Psalms 19:9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. 

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives. 

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 

Matthew 23:25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.{TR reads “self-indulgence” instead of “unrighteousness”} 

Facts:   However, in embracing the values of tolerance and respect, people often seem to retreat into a kind of “personal morality”.  If we cannot agree of shared values and ways of being in the world, in a pluralistic society, who am I to say what is right?  Who am I to impose my values on you? 

 

But this leads to what might be called the Great Contradiction of contemporary moral life. On the one hand, we believe in the right of people to pursue their own versions of happiness; on the other hand, the fact that something is freely chosen does not make it good, worthy or right.  If we all have the right to our own personal morality, then “the right to choose freely” easily degenerates into “If it’s freely chosen, then it’s all right.” 

Individual rights are essential for a free society.  However, they are insufficient for a free and moral society.  As free citizens, we need to rethink our commitment to a narrow conception of moral life.  There is more to moral life than our claims to our rights. A moral society cannot sustain itself without in the absence of a quest toward some shared sense of virtue, goodness, caring and so forth.  To become a truly moral society, we must seek to identify, negotiate and coordinate the values and virtues that define how we should act, who we should be, and how we should live.  Facts by Michael Mascolo Ph.D.

Values Matter

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