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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[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

Yes, we had British Empire Guilt when I was growing up, and I went through a lot of that, but I don't think it does any good. If anything, the guilt feels so bad that it makes you less willing to think about the problem and what, if anything, you can do to put it right. And it means that if anyone else raises the problem, your immediate reaction is "oh no, haven't I been subjected to enough misery and shame about this, when it's not my fault anyway? Why can't they shut up about it and leave me alone?!" If you didn't feel the guilt, you'd be less reluctant to talk about it or face it, or figure out what you can do to help.

And yes, any kind of us v them behaviour is likely to cause casualties all around :)