Moral absolutes - do not want

[essayel]

I've just been reading John C Wright's FIVE POST justification of his views on love, marriage, sex and his absolute conviction that whoever else burns in hell fire it won't be him. The link is to part one BTW if anyone has the stomach to sit through it.

Now I feel slightly dirty and wholly ashamed of being a middleaged, white, married heterosexual in case people think I'm like him.

I think I'll go and draw some more cartoon strip. In the next section - for absolutely valid, in character, historically verifiable reasons - Anatolios loses his clothes! *reaches for Burne Hogarth*

ETA - actually can I just make it clear that I know very well that drawing and writing the stuff I write and draw doesn't actually make me any the less privileged in my life. I've seen LOTS of references to 'checking your privilege' lately and I'm not quite sure how to do it but I think it's something to do with being ashamed that you've had it so easy.

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[essayel.livejournal.com]

It's a new skill to learn, isn't it. A little bit like if one moves to a new country one has to learn how to negotiate the different types of public transport system. One shouldn't feel guilty for not knowing but it would be culpable of you to make no attempt.

This is far more serious, of course, addressing deep wrongs over many centuries, but as far as I can see it works along the lines of "This is a problem I didn't know I was perpetuating. Now I know about it I can stop adding to it".