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1. ABOUT OBJECTIVE ETHICS,
GOOD AND BAD
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“Decency of being, of acting, is plenty of virtue. One is made of the other, and it is
richer when pursuing the integrity of people; a proportional acting, close to peace,
loyalty, control of rage, avarice, jealousy, and other negative values, proper to people,
which while time go by, we see how it seizes anyone who find it first, and approaches to
gigantic steps to corruption more and more; downfall seems imminent, and we see it is
a constant in mankind, but everything is not lost, advances in social, civil and political
rights and new freedoms demonstrates that all the previous sayings are present, and the
evil power is strong, but no more than good, and it’s too strong, that doesn’t let it
predominate over the other; thus, there’s a hope, and nobody who writes anything
different never gets involved in one or another, which is not important, but believing in
good is, while being conscious of bad. We can recognize both words, and fighting for it
more and more is worthy,
Decency of being”
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So it is necessary to determine the limits between good and bad, and considering the
uncountable thesis which history has originated from secular, religious and spiritual
philosophies, and beyond policies made through judicial normative, we can say that the
GOOD, decent thought and act, which is also clever, polite (understanding, knowledge,
change) and adequate (because the effects of good, as well as bad, are generated
unavoidable in the same sense, internally and in the mean it’s done. Sooner or later,
good vibrations attract themselves, as bad vibrations always do the same; that’s why
people think about what to do or say) “is free to do what it wants, while it didn’t
objectively hurt anyone else or himself/herself, physical or psychologically, because
of a positive conduct, omission, or negligence”.
This rule is applied to every analysis about people’s behaviour and it clearly has, as
reference, the superior values which humanity has considered, being mainly, as stated
on the United Nations declaration, respect for people’s dignity, freedom and equity.
So, for instance, killing is bad. Why? Because anyone hurts physically to anybody else,
and also, psychologically to their inner circle (an exception can be self-defence).
Another example is a parent who doesn’t feed his/her child, because this omission
affects his/her physical and emotional development which can cause his/her death.
Robbery and fraud cause physical damage in the other’s personal assets, and also
psychological damage in the one who suffers. Gossiping about anybody else, making
others feel uncomfortable and nosing around his/her own personal issues (a conduct
cause by envy – we wish what we don’t have or what we aren’t, and if we don’t, destroy
that people verbally – misfortune, frustrations and internal problems which are
expressed in that way, normally sexual or materially; why other person’s private issues
can be so appealing if it doesn’t hurt others?, clear damaging, improper behaviour,
which causes public shame and psychological damage (except in cases of humour,
information, etc).
Raping or abuse causes physical and psychological damage in the victim.
Incest is harmful rather in the damage on possible vices on descendants (which is just a
simply political position, because in certain historical moments it was regarded as a
nobility right), and also damages and vices the indemnity of children and teenagers’ free
sexual growing. It’s quite similar in paedophilia (according to psychology, having sex
with 14 years old children or under; and legally, it’s sanctioned as raping), or rape for
abuse in power circumstances over the child; or damaging public property, which is a
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damage to the State and affects to physical and psychological life quality of everyone.
Taking drugs damages the familiar and social environment, and also the
person itself. Dependency on sex vices mind and can affect productivity (Foucault), like
getting rich at others’ expense, with no legal cause. Killing animals indiscriminately not
for feeding or science usage damages the animal physically and the conscious – the
psyche – of all the human beings who believe in respect for life, and it can also
affect future generations, and so does destruction of nature, or anyone who
offends a blind or disabled person, because it is a psychological damage for him/her.
And the analysis of cases continues.
From it, disapproval and necessary social and legal protection proportional to damage is
generated. We refer to objective damage, because we can’t regard an act which is just
detrimental from a relative subjective personal point of view as wrong or immoral or
deserving social and/or legal protection, against the respect for culture and customs,
which can exonerate it in certain circumstances. For instance, if a person regards that a
woman can be punished for walking down the streets without her “gurca”
(unfortunately, in some countries it is still compulsory), and it can’t be taken into
account, because the damage allegation is, in the same way, opposite to dignity and
equity of every person regardless of her sex, I mean, her Human Rights. Or even, the
damage allegation made because a couple of men kiss each other in the street, because,
although it affects the person’s Victorian morality – “bad secret sex”, “evil abnormal
homosexuality”, based on prejudice, ignorance or, occasionally, hypocrisy and jealousy
– that only allegation or complaint can also be dismissed because it’s opposite to human
rights, people´s dignity, freedom and equity and scientific reasoning (see the text about
sexuality, and mainly Foucault, Kinsey, and other great sexologists, psychiatrists and
psychologists).
Still, if we analyze finely those cases, we can see that who makes damage and deserves
the sanction because of lack of ethics and reasoning, that person is precisely the one
who complains about the false injury or dreadful action, because it damages
psychologically that woman or that couple in her/their consideration as individuals and
dignity as human beings. It also includes can lead to battery, assassination, depression,
or serious traumas, particularly in depressive personalities (personal style caused by
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affective links, which searches just for public recognition; also see phobic and
obsessive), and that allegation is also opposite to basic principles and values of mankind
which allow us to live in a diverse peaceful society.
The previous sayings are a conscious warning about dangers of sects and certain
positions which can become absolute based on prejudices which had multiple origins,
and are opposite to transcendental values – human rights – and warn us to be careful and
think before judge and act, demonstrating that we are superior animals, with genuine
capability of reason, in order to live in a world of conscious and general well-being,
which must be concreted in all over the world right now.
These thoughts and behaviour opposite to human rights – self-respect and to others,
love, life, physical and psychological integrity, freedom, equity – are primitive basic
aberrant principles and an insult to ethics (immoral themselves), beauty and
intelligence; such as making an attempt on other’s life or assets, or all kinds of
discrimination (racial, genre, sexuality, religion, income level, etc.), which millions of
people have suffered for a long time. They normally come from childhood traumas,
physical abuse or rape, or from a bad upbringing based on ignorance prejudice or scarce
capacity of reflection and real understanding of good and bad (he/she only repeats and
accepts what the others say), or from a wrong interpretation and comprehension of
religious quotations, said in other contexts. All of these are immoral conducts and
thoughts which evidence the existence of psychopathologies or unhealthy “poor”
manners (“poor” meaning lack of mental and spiritual values) of thinking and
perceiving life, because of the previously explained causes, in the person who thinks in
that way, because whoever not respecting dignity and human rights, suffers those
disorders. For instance, a Nazi who believes his/her race is better than his/her, a
fraudster, a burglar, a jealous gossip person, a murderer, or a dictator of behaviour and
conscious on behalf of the good of all, or a being who, on behalf of a god, condemns as
a sinner or regards as a deviant to somebody who belongs to another religion or is gay,
denying with it all his/her rights, such as having his/her own family (who normally have
sexual traumas – see Foucault, Freud – or political interests or just dependency, because
of lack of clarity of values, from the belonging Church). That’s why it’s necessary to be
certain about those values and teach them to young people, which are the future and the
guarantee of a better world, if raised and well educated.
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As we can appreciate, ethics are not as subjective as vulgarized in relation to reasoning
because of uncertainty, because it has certain clear limits, which are twin concepts:
human rights and transcendental superior human values.
It is also essential, since this moment, –not in one hundred more years – that the UN – a
democratic entity, representative of the whole world – would have universal power,
regardless of the (non)existence of approval from the States, in order to warranty the
basic transcendental human values which allow us to live with justice, peace and
fraternity, minimal issues for all person’s optimum quality of life, regardless of the
place they live and can be prone to his/her free growing and happiness.
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