Morals, and Society
 Morality


BURN!!!!


Society is today a mess. We have growing social problems, increasing hatred, increasing immorality. In the 1950's, and early, morality was charished. Anything that was immoral was hidden from view. Pregnant teens were sent off to live with doctors, or relatives in other parts of their countries until their 'condition' was adopted off. This tight cap on the world erupted in an explosion of rebellion in the 1960's. With the introduction of THE PILL sex became free and common. Huge amounts of kids started messing around with all the drugs they could get their hands on. LCD was given out for free by a university who took a multi coloured bus around the states, offering out free LCD. Kids stopped listening to their parents. Left wing politics flourished, as this new generation tried to be completely the opposite to their nationalist, capitalist, red baiting parents. Make love Not War! This was a generation of children who did not feel loved by their controlling parents. They tried to rebel, they tried to achieve anarchy. And to an extent, their movement has created a form of anarchy. A form that does not consist of freedom, of no ruling class, but instead, of no moral rules.

Kids now-a-days have the perfect excuse for coming home stoned, or getting pregnant. Their parents did it. Two wrongs make a right in this world. But now we have abortion freely offered to handle the pregnancy issue. And Clinton smoked pot, and look at him. Our old morals have given way to a form of logic which can justify anything. In the past this logic was used to justify wars, opression, racism, slavery. Now it is used to justify immorality.

Violent crime has excalated, or so the media tells us. People are being pegged off for hateful reasons. Columbine was a result of hate, not of the offenders, but of the victims. In Jasper, a black man was dragged behind a truck until his body was torn apart, by two white supremists. Religious wars are just as common as ever, but now more violent. Oppression is more rampant then ever. Slavery now has a new name. Society has lost it's morality, it's ability to judge what is good, and what is bad. With this comes a lack of freedom. No one cares whether their actions will negatively effect anyone, just so long as they can do it.

This is the problem with the world today, we have no moral values. Many argue that the system of anarchism can never work, because people are inheritly bad. To me this is all the more reason not to have people ruling one another. No leader at all is much better than an evil leader. This argument requires one thing, and that is that moral law does not exist in an anarchist society. I cannot believe this though. I believe that people are a product of their society. People are bad because society is bad. People are immoral because society has always been immoral. Anarchism cannot exist unless people care about themselves and one another. This means that morals must be present. The only rules we really need are moral laws, which exist inside of everyone.

As a Christian, I believe that Jesus was sent down to show us that it is possible to live a moral life. To live a life with a positive effect on everyone. Although this perfect morality is probably impossible for fallen man, we cannot stop striving for it. If all of society were to strive for what it knows is just, we will most certainly be able to improve society. Only then would a political system without any rulers, without any real laws, and with complete equality, be a possible thing.


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