On Faure's Weinstein

The biggest fear of conservatives, in our ever widening cultural chasm, is that liberals don’t know right from wrong, and wouldn’t care if they did. The Left, in rejecting the moral authority of God, has no basis for what’s good or evil. 

Though both sides seem oblivious to twenty-five thousand years of trial and error, resulting in standards for societal norms lasting up til the end of the Vietnam War.

We are our myths, according to Northrup Frye. Achilles was loyal to his friends, vanquished his enemies, and is forever our hero. Odysseus was faithful to his wife, defeated his rivals, and set his own lands in order. These are the ideals we live by. They’ve been tempered by Jesus and Mohammed, but remain largely intact, as so eloquently orchestrated by William Shakespeare. It’s who we are.

But the upheavals of twentieth century wars left Troy demolished and Ithaca adrift. The falcon cannot hear the falconer. So where do we go now.

Well the whole point of mans’ twenty five thousand years of trial and error, is to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Thus the point of the cultural revolution of the mid-sixties through mid-seventies was to put that to the test. Because if a pragmatist has values, other people don’t. So what have we learned. Hopefully, right from wrong.

Humping little girls isn’t right or wrong because it offends God, it’s right or wrong depending on whether it’s disruptive to social order or not. Which is a very simple equation, and reasonable as well. Thus - it’s a no, don’t do it. Because we can easily see that humping little girls just doesn’t work for a functional social order. Therefore laws should discourage it.

Laws are to effect social order. Little girls shouldn’t hump or be humped until such time as they are no longer children. Which they can’t decide for themselves cuz they aint got the wisdom or experience to do so. The whole of the problem is that their parents likely don’t either. Which is the inherent trouble with laws - they deprive the citizenry of learning for themselves - why laws need be.

Quite simply - flood your community with 14-year old mommies and you’ll understand. Add to that, all the men in the neighborhood saying “yeah, that could be my kid…or maybe not.” But you get the picture. Who wants to acquire basic knowledge by way of endless misery.

The alternative is to teach these basic life skills to the kiddies in the first place. Yes, we’d be less drown-prone if we were all taught to swim. But don’t assume young ‘uns are stupid. Humping doesn’t offend God. Hell, He invented it. But what it does, is potentially screw up yer life. And that’s what y’oughtta be schooled on. Which is something both sides need to learn.