One Can Lack Morality, But Must Have a Bottom Line!

2006/7/11 16:07:03

The garbage nature of that garbage thing called morality lies in this: it attempts to make the world uniform through some moral code, and a uniform world is the root of all things turning to garbage — including that "pluralistic monism." Morality needs no toppling, because morality never stood upright to begin with. The morality of all of history has merely used even greater immorality as its premise. Morality is like those rubber sheaths associated with men — it artificially manufactures a kind of illusory satisfaction while concealing the fact that satisfaction has never had anything to do with the sheath.

One can lack morality, but must have a bottom line! The logical bottom line regarding humans is: a person must first be a person. A human being is not the product of any concept. Humans can be social beings, but only in a sociality that belongs to humans. For humans, any attribute can only be an attribute of humans — sociality included. Without humans, there is no so-called sociality. This is the most basic inferential bottom line. That is to say, individuality is the foundation of sociality, and the foundation of individuality has but one basis: a living human being. A dead person, no matter what they once were, is merely fertilizer, garbage — unqualified to be human!

Each and every living human being is the most fundamental theoretical bottom line for all conclusions about humanity. Any discussion that departs from this bottom line is nonsense, and all evils against humans are caused by departing from this bottom line. From this bottom line, we can derive one most important corollary: anything that places itself above human life is inhuman!

Therefore, there is no ideal in this world that can be pursued at the cost of others' lives. Of course, any individual has the freedom to sacrifice their own life for their own ideals, but no one has the right to make anyone else sacrifice their life for that person's ideals. This is the most basic real-world bottom line regarding human beings! Without even this bottom line, any discussion is meaningless, because discussion always takes place above the real-world bottom line of human existence!