Reply #19: yes I'm a complete hypocrite [View All]

[sui generis]

you got me ;)

It's subjective. To adapt your bovine philosophy, if it's not sinful for everybody they should say so, and we do. It's not the fact of our voices that counts though, it's the logic of our claim.

The issue is that a few people that make some absurd claim to some monolithic form of morality believe it's universal and they are the ones chosen to interpret it for the rest of us.

Interpretations of morality come in two forms: behavioral restrictions that we apply to ourselves, and behavioral restrictions we believe everyone should observe.

Morality alone is not a valid reason for a behavioral restriction couched in the language of law, with the enforcement of punishment and social retribution. It can't hold, and if it could, none of us would be eating shrimp and anybody who had a tendency towards sex outside of marriage would have had themselves and their gene lines pruned from the the human gene pool long ago or we would have redefined marriage long ago.

We have to have good reasons for saying "don't eat pork, nobody is allowed to eat pork" other than it's in some creaky old list of goatherder rules. Undercooked pork can cause trichinosis in humans, shellfish from high effluent human waste repositories (natural bays with open sewers) can cause hepatitis, and disease is most easily spread through contact with blood and mucous membranes. Those were valid reasons for avoiding pork and shellfish and sex with women in their "unclean time" (not my words).

Just saying it's immoral is stupid, and worthy only of goatherders.