Moral

Moral is a weird thing.

Moral is good!

Kind of per definitionem, right? Isn’t moral supposed to define what’s good?
Or was that ethics? What’s the difference?

I think moral is what drives us to do ethical things. Be that true or not, I’ll just treat it that way.
So then moral is inherently good.

I sometimes feel like that’s the defining factor about leftists: We try to act morally good (or ethical). Of course that’s probably something a lot of people would say. Maybe then what truely separates us is that we also try to have consistent thorough ethics. That are based on egalitarian and (thus) non-discriminatory principles.

And striving for such a world is good, right? It would be nice if we lived in such a moral society – right?

Moral is bad!

The problem with this is that it’s really excluding (paradoxically).
Because moral always is something that we (also) expect from others. So we expect others to act in a morally good (ethical) way.

And if they don’t?
Then we sanction them in some way. Be it a (passive) exclusion from our structures / rooms or critique.¹ I think that’s the reason why it feels so awkward for new people to join leftist groups. People initially have the feeling that they’re doing everything wrong and are thus not welcome.

Moral is fascist!

Ok this is a bit of a provocative statement. But I do think that our moral approach is something that helped fascism come to (that much) power. That’s the reason people were ashamed.

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