Saturday, February 05, 2005

Moral authority

What a contradictory concept!

To expect someone to behave according to certain morals just because you somehow hold a certain authority is totally immoral! If people don't understand the reasoning behind the morals, their behavior is simply authomatic.

Moral authority lies in the agreement of all concerned by those moral rules to live by them. And even in that case, authority might become too smug, as it usually tends to do, unless the group continues to re-examine itself and the issues its morals are concerned with.

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