Being “open minded” is a euphemism for not having a protocol for discerning true from false, right from wrong.

It is a sin to have sex without a licence from the Church. The licence is called “wedlock” or “marriage”. Sex itself is not a sin, only the failure to obtain the licence is a sin.

Rules/laws that are enforced result only in the appearance of moral behaviour. Genuine moral behaviour is only when people freely choose to act morally because they know it is in their ultimate interest. Enforcement does not educate, does not enlighten, it merely delays the crisis via which people will learn. People learn by breaking the law and suffering its natural consequences, even if nobody is watching, even if nobody knows that the law was violated. In order to learn, people must be allowed the freedom to err, and even destroy themselves if they fail to learn. The only true justice is when it needs no enforcement, no punishment, and also when no action can prevent it, and nothing can escape it. We choose it for ourselves in everything that we do, even if we are not aware of the chain of consequences that must follow. ‘The world as we know it’ is justice.
The best we can do is to study the chain of moral consequences, and we are only beginning. For thousands of years hardly any discoveries were made in this regard, apart from the golden rule, which was merely asserted but not yet comprehensively justified. We are for the most part morally ignorant, and this brings about inevitable suffering.

The only bridge between oneself and another is deliberation, in good faith. While the mechanism of meaning creation is inherently social, it always hinges on individual attitude. The moral law can be reduced to this one principle, because even when we are thinking alone, trying to follow pure logic, we are already invoking our social history as the one who thinks, therefore our integrity as a person, which is the cumulative effect of all our past choices; it either allows us to reflect on things consistently or distorts our judgment and the scope of our vision.

Penny Wong and Albanese should lead by example, put their own skin in the game, get high on Captagon and go wild on the Eastern Front like all the other senior ‘recruits’:) Show us that you care for Ukraine, for freedom, for democracy, and for a rules-based-order enough to risk your own life. At the same time, no mention of ‘boots on the ground’ to stop the mass murder of children in Gaza; they only talk tough when they have a bully behind them, not in front of them.

The connection of our common ancestors with the planet Earth, and our common claim to original ownership of the Earth, is older and deeper than that of any tribe. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-earth

Choices imply consequences.

If the consequence of choosing X and the consequence of not choosing is identical, then the assertion that X is a choice implies contradiction. For example, the effect of choosing to be unvaccinated is the same as not-choosing at all, therefore the alleged choice is inconsequential, therefore not a choice.

You may have a choice about how to respond to coercion, because you are compelled to respond, but not a choice about what you are.

Anthropomorphising wombats to divert empathy from the children being starved, tortured and exterminated in the ongoing Holocaust?

Inflation is a tax charged by the banking system on the entire money supply, by permission of the State.

The practical equivalence between not choosing and choosing nothing implies no choice.

The real estate bubble was intergenerational theft, engineered to impoverish and weaken future generations of the working and middle classes and empower the rich. It is economic apartheid. When someone makes money for nothing by flipping properties on paper they are only taking value generated by others, using economic trickery.

Vaccine mandates involve the intentional killing of some people for the prospective benefit of others. Those who support vaccine mandates renunciate their right to life: they implicitly consent to being killed for the benefit of others. This consent absolves the architects or executors of such policies of violating the right to life of these entities.

What did Jesus want for himself from being crucified?

If to act intentionally is to satisfy our preferences, which are thus an expression of self-interest, even if it is a common interest and thus also serves the interests of others, then theologians are obliged to inquire what was the nature of self-interest that motivated Jesus to willingly die on the cross, assuming that Jesus was a perfectly rational being.

The Principle of Sufficient Reason REVISED

The sense of ‘sufficiency’ in the principle of sufficient reason (PSR) is not arbitrary: a sufficient reason warrants that something is a fact. Sufficiency qualifies reasons as corresponding to facts; it is not the case that facts are qualified as corresponding to reasons. For example, if it is raining then the ground is wet: rain is a sufficient reason for the ground being wet, but wet ground does not imply that ‘it is raining’. There may be facts for which there are no reasons (why is there something rather than nothing?), but it cannot be the case that there is a sufficient reason and no corresponding fact. The interpretation that was historically assumed (that Fact implies Sufficient Reason) is therefore back to front. It should be understood that a reason is sufficient only if it implies a fact: R(x)→F(x). ‘It is raining’ is a sufficient reason for the ground being wet only if raining implies that the ground is wet.

People will help others out of empathy only up to a point, until the cost of helping matches the emotional cost of refusing to help. The empathy hustle (‘save the children’ charity approach) works by amplifying the emotional cost (the aim is to traumatise the audience as much as legally permissible) and then offer a way to emotional safety (request a donation to preserve their moral standing).

The function of healthcare is to restore health. When someone is healthy, any medical intervention is adverse to the healthy state. In case of contraception, it impairs healthy fertility. In case of vaccines it impairs the healthy function of the immune system. Both are inherently unhealthy by the medical standard of health.

Technology is an occult ritual. Its function is to transform mythology into phenomenology, and thus into reality. The rituals of Intel Corp, for example, are occulted by trade secrecy, their intricacy impenetrable to an uninitiated mind, conducted in high security temples called ‘factories’, where demonic entities called ‘robots’ are summoned to perform sacraments on the sacred object. Human access to the heart of the temple is restricted only to high priesthood; every other disciple must perform their rites of submission via a remote terminal. But the real power of the sacred object is imbued only by the ritual of its recognition by the profane. It is only at this final stage that the myth becomes reality, a means of possession of the minds of the profane.

The most insidious, false ideology is ‘altruism’. Until we acknowledge that everything we do is motivated by self-interest we are not yet moral beings, because we deny having an interest in the realisation of our wants, which is the substance of moral reasoning. Altruism implies that the question ‘why be moral’ is senseless.

Doctors know that when the available resources make it impossible to save everyone, they are required to choose who is to live and who is to die, based on their assessment of the net residual value of individual lives, and it is reasonable to assume that doctors would seek to save themselves ahead of any patient, precisely because they regard their capacity to make this kind of decisions as extremely valuable.

People get offended because of their own beliefs.

If over the last two years the roles of Israel and Palestine were reversed, then the situation would, without hesitation, be characterised as the Holocaust, and so it must be characterised as the Holocaust irrespective of roles. By applying the standard of the perpetrator, the state of Israel is committing the Holocaust.