It appears as if Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com> wrote:
|Samael, please explain how you can, in good faith, follow a philosophy
|which can be construed to justify anything. Your subjectivist
|philosophy implies that it may, under certain circumstances, be
|morally okey dokey to nuke a newborn in a microwave. Hey, there's no
|wrong or right! We can do anything!
Of course we can do anything.
Only our meme systems stops us from doing these things.
Other humans may have other meme systems that define some behaviours "wrong" which your meme system defines "right" and vice versa.
A clash of meme systems occurs. Wars have been fought to decide memes (Jahve vs Allah, Catholics vs Protestants, Free Market vs State Capitalism, etc. ad nauseam).
|I'm not a philosopher and I have no grand justification of objectivism
|other than the fact that your subjectivism can justify all of what
|most of us consider evil in the world - genocide, murder, rape, child
|abuse, etc etc.
Cultures which value humans who work as concubines highly have no problem with prostitution.
Cultures which consider consentual sexual activities the correct behaviour between adults and children have a lesser "child abuse" problem (defining it as violence).
By giving the same act different names (such as "murder", "execution" , "slaughter" and "war") our meme systems makes us do things others find abhorrent. As an example you might wish to read the memoirs of Rudolf Höss, "Commendant in Auschwitz", in which he describes how he and his collegues self-sacrificingly fought to remove the undesirables. His meme system differs considerably from yours and you will probably find his acts abhorrent, but seen through his meme system it was the logical thing to do.
The Christian crusades seen through the Muslim eyes were a genocide.
The list goes on and on.