On Morality

From the pens of others-

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

Vilfredo Pareto

As long as society’s leaders recognize resentment for what it is, it can do no harm, even though it will perpetuate the poverty of those who nurture it. Resentment is utterly impotent. Those whose thinking is dominated by envy and hatred of achievers will never accomplish anything on their own, except perhaps a random violence that strikes the innocent far more often than the intended victim. They cannot even start a revolution: For that they need a vanguard of capable by warped and brutal ideologues. Resentment is nothing more than a childish complaint emanating from an adult body, and such complaints amount to nothing unless those who are in a position to do something about them feel and obligation to do so - when resentment is confused with morality.

Modern Medicine does not simply make more people healthy. Its larger effect is to keep more chronically sick people alive. At some point the elitist impulse be recognized as the only tenable one: to say, at least by the inaction of withholding treatment, that some lives are indeed worth more than others. Ideologues will denounce this as fascism. It is really just candor.

William A. Henry III

In general, the world is a rational place in which winners on the whole deserve to win and losers deserve to lose. It is only for the exception, the lives that are strikingly unfair, that we maintain the mediating devices of social welfare.

William A. Henry III

The bible is a blueprint of in-group morality, complete with instructions for genocide, enslavement of out-groups, and world domination....

Evolutionists have not been able to devise a model for converting in-group morality into general morality.

John Hartung

The reductionist worldview is chilling and impersonal. It has to be accepted as it is, not because we like it, but because that is the way the world works.

I am all in favor of a dialogue between science and religion, but not a constructive dialogue. One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

[T]he ideal of a multiracial society in which all races live in harmony is another liberal-left pipe dream. Humans are biologically programmed for group conflict, particularly between races that are genetically differentiated. Sociobiology teaches that we can forget the ideal of racial harmony. The best we can do is try to mitigate racial conflict as much as possible.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members. Though manifestly unfair, this tendency has some justification. For the character and destiny of a group are often determined by its inferior elements.

Do Western moral principles require that its creators commit suicide in order to fulfill those principles? Such a belief is insane. It therefore follows that if the West is to survive it must come to grips, as Jean Raspail foresaw, with the profoundly destructive nature of its moral beliefs.

Any enduring moral order must be based on the following principles: 1) a dual code of morality, which is of evolutionary origin, binds the members of ethnic and racial groups together; 2) universal, self-sacrificing altruism in a world in which racial cohesion is elsewhere the norm is lethal; and 3) the imperative of survival and the primacy of self-preservation supersede all laws made by man.

Michael W. Masters

Out of kindness, we stopped the predators, and the deer herd expanded until it starved. Out of compassion we taught the primitives hygiene, and their death rate plummeted, their population exploded, and then famine. Out of empathy we sent food and taught them to live with other tribes under the same government. Again their population doubled, and famine set in with genocide. The scale of suffering had only been magnified by the hubris of liberals trying to do good.

Perry Lorenz