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<blockquote data-quote="Paracelsus" data-source="post: 1154972" data-attributes="member: 8098">RE: NYT: &quot;If You Let Boys Be Boys, They will Murder their Fathers &amp; Sleep Wit...Only in this respect: to destroy the latter, you must debase the former.&nbsp; This has been the rule of civilisation from the Roman Empire onwards.&nbsp; Morality is held inwardly, it is a matter of character, it is the internal rules by which a person chooses to live, their integrity.&nbsp; Its operative mechanism is guilt.&nbsp; Culture, so far as it shapes a society, is all external behaviours and the expectations of others.&nbsp; Its operative mechanism is shame.Confusing morality with culture is to succumb to the siren song of the Left, moral relativism: to first say that morals are artificial ideals imposed by society and one's location in the world.&nbsp; From there it is a short, dark hopscotch game to reach the poisoned vein in anthropology that there is no such thing as a universal human nature.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paracelsus, post: 1154972, member: 8098"] [b]RE: NYT: "If You Let Boys Be Boys, They will Murder their Fathers & Sleep Wit...[/b] Only in this respect: to destroy the latter, you must debase the former. This has been the rule of civilisation from the Roman Empire onwards. Morality is held inwardly, it is a matter of character, it is the internal rules by which a person chooses to live, their integrity. Its operative mechanism is [i]guilt.[/i] Culture, so far as it shapes a society, is all external behaviours and the expectations of others. Its operative mechanism is [i]shame.[/i] Confusing morality with culture is to succumb to the siren song of the Left, moral relativism: to first say that morals are artificial ideals imposed by society and one's location in the world. From there it is a short, dark hopscotch game to reach the poisoned vein in anthropology that there is no such thing as a universal human nature. [/QUOTE]

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