Anything Goes

I don’t know if you have noticed it but the thing today is anything goes. The protagonist says that I want to do what I want and you have no right to tell me otherwise. If I want to do it then it is right as all morals are subjective and it is up to me to decide what is right and wrong.

It all sounds very good but in making that claim it falls flat on its face.

For example, a man wants to go out in the evening and find himself a boyfriend who he can have sex with and maybe one day they will fall in love and get married. So far, so good. They have exercised their freedom to do what they want to do free from all restraints.

Along comes a Christian and tells him that he is violating the law and purpose of God. The man gets very upset and reports him to an anti-discrimination tribunal and has him charged with hurting his feelings (actual case).

Now, wait a minute. Everything is right and nothing is wrong according to the anything-goes cartel. If that is the case what the Christian said and did was right. Remember, anything goes so there is no right or wrong.

By reporting the Christian to the ADT, the man was rejecting his own philosophy of anything goes and there is no right or wrong. According to him, having sex with another man with a view to marriage wasn’t wrong. That means what the Christian said wasn’t wrong either because there cannot be wrong in an anything-goes philosophy.

The Christian has as much right to say what he did as the man had to do what he did. If he doesn’t, then anything doesn’t go and there is right and wrong. If having sex with another man is right then saying it is wrong is right. If saying it is wrong is wrong then having sex with another man is wrong because anything goes or it doesn’t. You can’t make a moral judgement that one thing is right and one thing is wrong.

This is a clear example of the duplicity of those that are fighting for anything goes. It only goes if they think it does. If they do not, then it doesn’t go, it is wrong so they have a made a moral judgement which is something that they abhor in others, especially if the judgement involves them and what they do or say.

If someone comes along and says you are not allowed to do this or you are not allowed to say that because it is a moral judgement, then the answer is that you are not allowed to do or say what you are doing or saying because it is a moral judgement, or as the case may be an immoral judgement.

All actions and words involve a judgement of some kind. Those that have got the impression that words and actions are morality-free are in cloud cuckoo land. It just doesn’t happen. The moment you say “I support same-sex marriage“ you have made a moral judgement or in this case an immoral judgement.

Having done that you have no right to say that someone who does not support same-sex marriage does not have the right to say so and do something to show their disapproval.

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