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applegrove

(118,499 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 03:43 AM Jan 2017

There once was a time when the GOP was against moral relativism.

Last edited Thu Jan 26, 2017, 05:00 AM - Edit history (1)

Now with the alt right in control you don't hear such talk anymore. Why? My guess is because of dataism ( Harari 'Homo Deus'). Human emotions are just algorithms (instructions)that ensure the survival of your genes or your greater tribe. I agree. But we are not in the business of allowing crimes just because it may benefit the criminal in an evolutionary way, or the genes on the whole, by practicing such strategies. A strategy is rape. Yeah for rapists. It is an evolutionary strategy for that small % of men who have the impulse. So too murdering your wife when she separates from you or has an affair for a small percentage of men that is an evolutionary strategy that keeps women in line. But over time we have elevated things called values. Misogyny is unacceptable in this day and age. That's a value. Don't forget to ask the alt righters what their values are when you come across them. Ask everyone you meet in an alt right infested website to list their values. And may that be the wedge that separates the alt right from the rest of us. Let's have a values war. Put 'em up.

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There once was a time when the GOP was against moral relativism. (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2017 OP
good idea! KT2000 Jan 2017 #1
Yup. We don't have the rigid black and white, prejudiced 'morals' applegrove Jan 2017 #2

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
1. good idea!
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 03:52 AM
Jan 2017

it goes for moderate right folks as well because they are supporting the alt-right propaganda.

applegrove

(118,499 posts)
2. Yup. We don't have the rigid black and white, prejudiced 'morals'
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 04:01 AM
Jan 2017

of the traditional GOP, but we have universal values. Alt right has none.

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