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We're Dealing With People Who Think Morality Is Subjective

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This chaos isn’t going to end unless those who actually represent morality unapologetically overpower and punish those who don’t have any. 

Many on the Left operate on the idea that morality is subjective, meaning that the concept of “goodness” shifts and bends based on what benefits them at the time. Anything evil can be made good with the right reasoning or reorientation of perspective. 

You can see this in action right now with the illegal immigration issue, where, during the presidency of Barack Obama, deporting illegal immigrants was a good and moral thing to do, so much so that Barack Obama himself awarded Tom Homan the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service while he was a senior official at ICE during Obama's administration. 

Homan had deported almost one million illegals under Obama, and for his incredible service, Obama and the Democrats applauded him publicly. 

Fast forward to today, and Homan is now a super villain to the Democrats for doing the same job, with far fewer deportations at this time. 

What caused the switch? 

The aforementioned subjective morality. I often say that the Democrats' unofficial motto is "It's okay when we do it," and this is exactly what I'm talking about. No matter what the issue is, if it benefits the Democrat party or the leftist agenda, then it's morally good. If it doesn't, then it's immoral. 

The same party that shrugged off domestic terrorism, or treats groups like Antifa with a velvet glove while using the phrase "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," is the same one that will come down on those peacefully seeking freedom from their tyrannical habits. The same party that says "no one is illegal" is the same one that tells us we live on stolen land. 

The same group that laughed, jeered, and mocked Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated is the same group that believes things have gone too far after Alex Pretti and Renee Good were killed while interfering with law enforcement officials. 

Most people operate by a set of morals that decides what we do each day and how we react in certain situations. We do this because we operate by something of a Judeo-Christian standard about moral absolutes. Aristotle noted we had a pretty thick set of virtues built into us by nature, Thomas Aquinas said that these virtues were instilled by God Himself, and so we hold these absolutes in the same category as the laws of gravity. 

We know that sex trafficking and abusing children is evil. We know that alcoholism and rape are horrible. We know that sleeping with another person's spouse is wrong and thievery is immoral, and even those who partake in those acts with a smile do so because the forbidden nature of the act makes it more exciting. 

However, the hard Left has to operate on a different track because, to obtain and keep power, that oftentimes means doing immoral things such as lying, stealing, harming, or even killing.


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They are Nietzschean at their core. The call is "by any means necessary," and if that means shrugging off what we know to be moral and virtuous, then so be it. The only thing moral and virtuous, in their minds, is the Der Wille zur Macht. God is dead, after all. The only real authority is the one we make for ourselves, and so they might as well be the ones making the rules. 

Funnily enough, the demonstration of how the Left views morality is currently shining through in the development of a video game called Fable.

Fable is a franchise that's been around for some time, but for the last three games, it was made by Lionhead Studios. However, a reboot of the game has been announced, this time being developed by Playground Games, a modern development company with all the ideas that a modern corporate developer would have, including an avoidance of beauty of body and face, gender distinctions, and, of course, a hard concept of morality. 

In previous Fable games, morality was an important component. They operated on the idea that there are good actions and bad actions, and depending on the moral choices you made, the world around you would shift, people would react, and even your body would change to suit your playstyle. 

With this woke rebrand, the developers have made it clear that morality is subjective, and so they stripped one of the core components out of the new game, saying instead that your choice will be viewed subjectively from person to person. 

To be fair, this is more true to life in terms of how people react to someone based on their lifestyle and the choices they make, but what this highlights is basically how the Left can call something evil when it's not, simply because it benefits them to throw it into the category of evil at the time. 

For instance, as the video highlights, someone might consider being rich evil. There's nothing evil about being rich, but the Left thinks that wealth is inherently an evil thing... if it's someone else who is wealthy. 

Subjective. 

This is kind of a skewed, warped, and corrupted idea of good and evil. Just because a person has the opinion that kicking puppies is a fun pastime doesn't make the act any less evil. 

A group of people who get together and advocate for the extermination of the Jewish population doesn't magically make genocide okay because they think it is. You can't pardon a subset of the population who loot, burn, assault, and murder because they believe it's a valid response to laws they don't like. Who controls what isn't the ultimate decider of what is and isn't moral. 

Nietzsche was wrong, and we can see that based on how his philosophizing creates discord and entropy. Aquinus was right, and that's demonstrated based on how society functions well with an upward trajectory in terms of rights, technology, and peace. 

The radical left cannot be reasoned with because reason isn't a factor in their actions. Morality isn't a consideration. Virtue is a malleable concept that can change based on what benefits them in the moment. 

The only proper recourse is to unapologetically enforce the rule of law based on Judeo-Christian concepts of right and wrong, whether you believe in God or not.

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