This is something I compulsively wrote on Substack because someone commented to me that being moral and good and empathetic were all subjective and pointless. FFS... I know you all know this stuff, and I've probably written the same article over and over already, but I thought I'd publish it here, anyway.

It truly saddens me to continue to see people saying otherwise. If there’s a real pandemic in this world, it’s this appalling belief that morality is ours to invent. This is pure Satanic thought. We can make claims and ascribe things as moral or immoral based on personal feelings and beliefs, but those claims do not alter reality. Harm is harm.

I can BELIEVE it’s moral to bonk someone on the head and take their money because I’m hungry, but my actions are still harmful. There was a victim of violence. That violence cannot be justified. A justification is always an attempt to make a wrong into a right. It’s in the word: from the Latin jus meaning “right,” and facere meaning “to create.” That cannot be done in reality, only in our own minds.

We all use the word conscience when we talk about right and wrong, but then turn around and say morality is relative. That is contradictory. I know I’ve covered this a bazillion times already, but it bears repeating:

Conscience comes from the Latin con- meaning “together,” and sciere meaning “to know.” It is knowledge that we are supposed to know together as a foundation for how we relate to each other. If your version of morality differs from mine, and mine differs from someone else’s, and it keeps changing depending on personal beliefs, feelings, times and circumstances, there is no conscience. When there is no conscience there is only contradiction, chaos, and suffering, and we can be tricked and duped into believing all sorts of nonsense. We can be tricked into believing harm is okay if it serves a “greater good.” We can be tricked into believing that slavery is morally legitimate and necessary for peace and order… and we are. That’s what the belief in “government” is.

Morality also has nothing to do with vices. Vices are internal issues, not how we interact with each other. Morality is about whether or not we are causing each other harm or supporting/respecting each other’s well-being. One can be gluttonous and harm themselves, but that isn’t a harmful action against another. One can be greedy and envious all they want, yet never engage in theft. One can be maliciously lustful, yet never engage in sexual assault. The harm is always in the actions we take against others. That doesn’t mean these vices are good, but they’re not immoral behaviors, they’re internal. When we have confusion about the difference between a vice and an immoral act, then we’re inevitably going to behave immorally, ourselves. And most importantly: when we don’t have common ground about right and wrong then we can’t know what a Human Right actually is. Again, another topic that I’ve belabored endlessly. Let’s trudge through it one more time!

A Right is not a permission slip or a privilege granted by a politician or fancy parchment, it is an action that one may take because it doesn’t cause harm to others. In other words, it doesn’t infringe upon their rightful property (which includes their body, autonomy, rights and freedom). Our Rights are inherent. They cannot be taken away, we can only BELIEVE they can, and make claims, and act on those claims. Such an act would be a wrong. A Wrong is an action that does cause harm or infringe upon someone’s property (e.g. murder, assault, rape, theft, trespass, coercion and deception).

Morality also has nothing to do with “legal” or “illegal.” These are arbitrary and meaningless terms based upon the personal whims of politicians and legislators. Man’s “laws” always change with time, location and preference. This is called moral relativism which is the bane of freedom. Natural Moral Law never changes. What’s moral in one location and time is moral in ALL locations and times regardless of culture, population size or personal belief.

If we cannot come to common ground about morality through true conscience – the knowledge of the objective difference between right and wrong – then all we’ll ever create in the world is suffering. Why? Because we’ll always think our violent actions are justified, or someone else’s violent actions (like governments and standing armies), because we think we benefit from it or that it serves some perceived “greater good.”

Just look around the world today. We’re a conscienceless species right now. We support institutions that poison, deceive, manipulate, control and enslave us, and yet we think we’re good. We don’t know what freedom is. We don’t know what Rights are. We can’t see the evil right in front of our faces; and if we do, we call it “necessary evil.” Evil is never necessary. You don’t get goodness from evil, you only get MORE EVIL.

Moral relativism has made us think we can get away with all kinds of violence, and just pop a Mentos and be on our merry way. When we think we can be our own arbiter of right and wrong we are spitting in the face of Creation. We have eaten the apple instead of acknowledging the Tree and abiding by its truth. As a result, we’ve fallen from the grace of Natural Law and deep into its judgement. If we keep on this path, things will only get worse. Soon enough, the sovereign human race will be no more.

Natural Moral Law is God’s Law. Lex Rex. Man does not share in that authorship. Man does not get to rule man by his own whims… not without severe consequence. Those consequences are piling up by the second. The more we fall from that Law, the more freedom we lose and the more suffering we create for ourselves.

Ignore this truth at your own peril.

“There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing, or the upright gait. But if he does not learn it, he must perish.”

– Alfred Adler

“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”

– Samuel Adams

“True Law is right reason in agreement with Nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrong-doing by its prohibitions… It is a sin to try and alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal a part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by Senate or People, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable Law will be valid for all nations and for all times, and there will be one master and one rule, that, God, over us all, for He is the author of this Law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge.”

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

– Hosea 4:6