Moral First Principles

Over time, I've come to see the conflict in America not as red v blue, but as a battle between two sets of moral first principles. Part of it came from noticing how my own profession no longer valued the truth, but instead, was willing to lie in the service of a greater cause. Here's one post where I pointed out that major institutions had discarded objective metrics and in favor of larger narratives.

Scientific American isn't any better. It's all political action and race relations with no acknowledgment of what the data clearly shows - family structure is the dominant factor.

Academic institutions and scientific organizations must confront race relations while navigating the difficulties of a pandemic and economic strife. They should also aknowledge (sic) their role in perpetuating systems of racial oppression. It should not have taken this long for them to realize that something had to be said, and it should not take long for something to be done.

To the racial justice crowd, particularly in the sciences, I say: I grant you nothing and I mean nothing. I do not accept any claims of good intentions, compassion, concerns for racial justice, devotion to equity or anything else. I grant you nothing. Those kids in Baltimore are not outliers, they're the norm. If you didn't know that, it's because all of your attention has been focused on you. You don't understand, know or care about those kids.

At the time, I was ticked off by their disregard for the data, but now I've recognize it for what it is - the substitution of new, large-scale causes in place of our old, atomic morals. That is, lying used to be wrong in and of itself. Now, lying is fine if it serves racial justice or some other major goal. Another example might be the decades of Global Warming Climate Change hysteria where one prediction of certain doom is replaced by another as each deadline passes without the doom coming true. It's transparently nonsense, but it doesn't even slow them down.

The failure of their doom models or the poor performance of children from non-traditional families or the crime rates by race never bother them because the old first principles based on Christian foundations no longer hold. That's one of the biggest outcomes of secular victory in the culture war. It's not that SciAm is lying, it's that lying doesn't carry any weight at all with SciAm.

Once you hit that point, all bets are off. There is nothing to stop you from, say, pedophilia, which is where we are with the drag queen story hours. Nothing can stop you from the torture and mutilation of children, either, which is where we are with the trans insanity.

In short, when your moral first principles are racial justice, climate change and gender affirmation, there are no limits on your behavior. Limits can only come when you have first principles from which you can derive an answer to the 5-year-old's question, "Why?" For the secular world, those first principles are Marxist, where the world is divided into easily-characterized oppressors and oppressed.

So here we are.

San Brinton is a high-ranking official in the DoE in charge of nuclear waste disposal. He's also a pervert who likes wearing dresses and having sex with men in leather dog costumes. None of that was a problem with the secular crowd. He only got into trouble when he stole women's luggage from airports.

If you feel this is perverted, please derive why this is wrong from moral first principles.