| appolose said:
See my post on the first page; I was referring to my reasoning that morality today depends on the number of supporters. |
You are throwing around the word morality like there should be a consensus on what is and is not moral. Isn't that as much a personal issue as it is a social issue? Why should everyone believe that everything has the same moral consequences when there is reasonable grounds for disagreeing whether or not something is even immoral at all?
Too many people assume that Judeo-Christian morality is the type of morality everyone should have. That is fundamentally against what this country was founded on.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
