tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post303618232884861624..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: There will always be a good - but what will it be?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-65647022829347441392012-06-09T17:11:26.131+10:002012-06-09T17:11:26.131+10:00Interesting article that quotes a male porn star w...Interesting article that quotes a male porn star who acknowledges that his job is "not normal" and that he actually yearns for a traditional feminine wife, and also acknowledges that the porn industry is unlikely to enable him to achieve such happiness:<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18352421<br /><br />THankfully people's instincts are conservative. It's just a matter of making people feel free to express them.gtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-7060438134445816342012-06-08T13:29:28.753+10:002012-06-08T13:29:28.753+10:00Thanks, Jesse.Thanks, Jesse.Bartholomewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-5221749212160892392012-06-08T09:03:48.817+10:002012-06-08T09:03:48.817+10:00Bartholomew said,
"We won't win them all...Bartholomew said,<br /><br />"We won't win them all. But we can win and have already won some."<br /><br />Hear hear.Jesse_7https://www.blogger.com/profile/08732509086253241748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-41776043834933592202012-06-08T03:28:06.550+10:002012-06-08T03:28:06.550+10:00Mark,
As you know, liberals take a subjective view...Mark,<br />As you know, liberals take a subjective view of the Good when they are attacking an established social convention, and an objective view of the Good when they are imposing a new social convention (or defending one they have already imposed). So when speaking of an institution such as marriage, the Liberal will blather about “different strokes for different folks,” but when speaking of an institution such as affirmative action, the Liberal blathers about “Justice.” As many others have noted, among Liberals the subjective view of the Good particularly prevails around the pelvic region, but when one moves up the human body and begins to consider what goes into and comes out of the human mouth, the objective view gains force. In not a few Liberals’ eyes, the act of a man munching on a bacon sandwich “cries out to heaven for vengeance.”<br /><br />So, as you say, Liberals do posit objective goods (such as those you mention), and if they have sufficient power they are more than willing to impose those goods on everyone else. What this means, I think, is that, ultimately, the battle between liberals and traditionalists is not a battle over the objective reality of the Good, but over placement of the line dividing moral duties from personal preferences. We traditionalists do not differ from Liberals in asserting that there is a Good, but rather in the specific acts, institutions and attitudes that, we assert, incarnate that Good.<br /><br />We traditionalists certainly believe in moral absolutes, but that is not what defines us. If we take it as our definition, we fall into the trap of becoming the negative image of the Liberals’ false conception of themselves. We are really defined by the specific absolutes (and relativities) that we believe in.JMSmithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-61138608256293431892012-06-08T02:44:45.294+10:002012-06-08T02:44:45.294+10:00Anonymous asks "Why bother?"
Because so...Anonymous asks "Why bother?"<br /><br />Because sometimes you win. I'd like to share a quick story that illustrates the point.<br /><br />As I've mentioned here before, I go to a church in the inner-city. Our church operates a daycare on the premises. I stopped down this morning to get something and discovered that workmen had just put up a new ad on the billboard overlooking our property. It read "Take care down there" and then had an arrow leading down to the crotch of a half-naked black man. It then exhorted the public to wear condoms and get tested because "your stuff is important".<br /><br />It certainly had the daycare a buzz. I called the national company (CBS) that owned the billboard, read it aloud to the woman over the phone and then informed her that these were some if the first words and images our pre-school children and school age children (it's summer break here) were seeing upon arrival at the daycare, and this was "over the line", or in the parlance of this post, an infraction against "the good".<br /><br />Two hours later, the billboard had been stripped. I called again and thanked them for their promptness and professionalism, and do you know what they said? "We had no idea there was a daycare there".<br /><br />Perhaps there's a law against racy billboards next to churches and daycares, but I'm not aware of out, nor did I appeal to such a law. I appealed to their decency, which is another way of saying, their sense of "the good". And it worked because, occam's razor here, the good exists and these people have an idea if what it is.<br /><br />Now I suppose we could have wondered if we really had the right to demand they take it down--it is their property after all. We could have wondered if we had the right to impose our Christian values on a secular company operating in the public sphere, etc--promoting responsible use of sexual license is some people's idea if what's good, and maybe some if our inner-city kids are experimenting earlier than we think, blah blah blah. And had we hesitated, just as Mr. Richardson predicts at the end of his post, that obnoxious billboard would still be there, "allowing current defective understandings of the good to linger". <br /><br />I think Tim T. is unnecessarily cautious. We know we're right, and they're wrong. To Hell with everything else.<br /><br />Also, I'd like to say the only reason I had the confidence to act decisively is because I have become convinced by this blog, VFR and others that we are right. And I've been encouraged to read here and elsewhere about the Christian groups in New Zealand tearing down the blasphemous church billboard and the nationalist Swedes destroying degrading/homosexual "art". We won't win them all. But we can win and have already won some.Bartholomewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-44167523611819045272012-06-07T23:01:07.594+10:002012-06-07T23:01:07.594+10:00The problem of liberals is the truth.
Liberals t...<b>The problem of liberals is the truth. </b><br /><br />Liberals tell us that <i>“there's no universal good because there's no truth”: “everything is relative”</i> — they say. <br /><br />However, tolerance is held by liberals as an absolute value which cannot be questioned in any manner. The problem is that, for liberals, tolerance is the unique and single absolute value, and that's why liberal ethics are defective. <br /><br />When a guy asks: <i>“Does the Truth exist ?”</i>, he admits, by principle, the possibility of an answer — because otherwise he would not ask himself the question in the first place, and the question would be absurd. And therefore he feels or intuitively knows that Truth exists. The person who asked that question — usually a liberal — does not know the right and wrong answers for the question, which means that the fact that Truth exists is independent of a safe criteria which could clearly distinguish it. <br /><br />When a liberal say: <i>“There is no Truth”</i>, he wants to affirm something that he considers as true; and therefore he contradicts himself — because when somebody asserts something, he is then convinced that his assertion is correct and that everybody should corroborate his opinion. Therefore, that liberal presupposes that there are sentences or affirmations which possess an unconditional validity, i.e., unconditional truths; and that also means that truth and error exclude themselves from one another, and, in consequence, there is between truth and error a difference that cannot be relativized.Orlando Bragahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16891839091944416605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-22186648924328859522012-06-07T02:24:16.902+10:002012-06-07T02:24:16.902+10:00"we shouldn't hold back from asserting a ..."we shouldn't hold back from asserting a positive good out of concern that we are being authoritarian "<br /><br />The Authoritarian Personality will deem you authoritarian anyway, so why bother?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com