Hey there. How are you?
This is a very touchy subject.Virtue. Morality. Is it subjective, is it just a facade of the weak to excuse their cowardice? I believe that morality should serve a purpose and it's not autogenous or based on principles, roughly speaking. Regardless what you believe or what you claim to believe, the majority of people abide by certain rules.
And this is generally a good thing, as long as it doesn't serve as a medium to broadcast superiority.
Would you cheat on your wife?
Would you fuck your best friend's girlfriend?
Would you steal money, if you didn't have to suffer the consequences?
I want you to stop for a moment and really think your answers here. I expect most of you to say "No! I would never do those things".
Let's use the first question as an example. You say you would never cheat on your wife or girlfriend, but this is hypothetical.
You tell yourself that you're a good person, but in reality, even if you WANTED to cheat on her, you don't have the options! This thing really bothers me, when I see a man signalling how faithful he is and how men who cheat are scumbags.
Motherfucker, you are in this relationships because you're afraid you will never have sex in your life once you break up.
You don't cheat, because you can't get laid.
Obviously, I don't have any intention to make you feel guilty for something you haven't done. There's merit in having a moral code, even if you never have to test it.
What's problematic, at least from my point of view, is when the low-life, uptight, pretentious corner of social media, belitles human beings for being "immoral". That's especially prominent with celebrities.
"Oh look at him. He cheated on her. What a scumbag, I would never do that, I have morals (ie I am superior than him), please give me attention!"
Idiot. Like you have 100 supermodels per day dming you to fuck their brains out. Like you know what it means to have options.
Or "What a slut/douche. I am a nice guy/girl, I would never behave that way, please fuck ME instead!
If you really want to call yourself "Moral", then don't call yourself that. Humans aren't perfect. The sooner we realize that, the better. We all have a darker side and as I said over and over again, we better talk with that side, before it takes us over.
A real virtuous mans, realizes that. He understands that he can't always be a saint. He will fuck up from time to time. That's why he doesn't call himself "virtuous".
And look, even me writing this. I don't call myself a virtuous man nor I claim to be one. And I don't even believe there's a certain set of moral rules that can be applied universally. No one should be the gatekeeper of morality.
But that doesn't mean I don't get to call you out when you pretend to be some kind of Jesus Christ, reincarnated in the body of a disgusting weeb :)
-Thatredbeardguy
