547. The Subtle Immorality Of Christian (Pseudo-)Morals
This continues entries 545 and 546.
I watched this video made by a group of people around Reisman
This continues entries 545 and 546.
I watched this video made by a group of people around Reisman
The Kinsey syndrome
http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/2009/03/watch_videos_on.html#table34
This video presents principally the same information concerning Kinsey's misconduct and aberrations as does Tate's documentary. I can agree with the simple attribution to Kinsey of the onset of the sexual revolution and with Reisman's pointing out, that pornographic magazines like Playboy are one facet of the damage done by the sexual revolution. Her elaboration of the harm of pornography in her article in entry 545 is excellent.
I see this in a wider context of an unfortunate reciprocal reinforcement between social development and technological progress leading to the fatal oversexation of society. Kinsey's mere claim of what and how sexual behaviors should be a social norm happened to coincide with men's instinctive predispositions to commodify women. But only the development of a sufficiently high quality of photos, moving pictures and recorded voices made the presented virtual persons in the media such a good imitation of real people, that there impact upon the brain is nearly or completely the same as if they were real.
Beyond this partial agreement, the bias of some of the conclusions, interpretations and claims of the video make me shudder. This video is one more example, how any morality derived from a religious belief system can be very immoral, when morality is measured by how much the victims are either harmed or spared.
The morals of any religion arbitrarily defining sin cannot be more rational to the needs of individual humans than is the belief system itself.
Bias/fallacy 1. The video attributes Kinsey's part in the atrocities to children to his having rejected religious beliefs. There are many possible explanations of what was wrong with Kinsey causing him to harm other humans. Maybe his behavior was due to psychopathy or any other disorder, but it was certainly not caused by the absence of religion.
Bias/fallacy 2. The video condemns behaviors, even though they do no harm.
Bias/fallacy 1. The video attributes Kinsey's part in the atrocities to children to his having rejected religious beliefs. There are many possible explanations of what was wrong with Kinsey causing him to harm other humans. Maybe his behavior was due to psychopathy or any other disorder, but it was certainly not caused by the absence of religion.
Bias/fallacy 2. The video condemns behaviors, even though they do no harm.
Homosexuality is generally condemned. The video does not distinguish between the differences in the harm caused by either promiscuity or monogamy. A caring committed couple is beneficial to each other, independent of both partners' gender being the same or different.
Bias/fallacy 3. The video even condemns beneficial behaviors. Abortion is condemned, even though legal abortion is beneficial. Women are protected from harm, while nobody is harmed.
Bias/fallacy 4. The video condemns necessary preventive adaptations to reduce the risk of harm, even though the causes of the necessity cannot be changed.
Bias/fallacy 3. The video even condemns beneficial behaviors. Abortion is condemned, even though legal abortion is beneficial. Women are protected from harm, while nobody is harmed.
Bias/fallacy 4. The video condemns necessary preventive adaptations to reduce the risk of harm, even though the causes of the necessity cannot be changed.
The video condemns sex education for children. The ubiquity of the oversexation of the media makes it nearly impossible to avoid young children to be exposed to age-unsuitable material. Age appropriate sex education can reduce the risk or prevent harm.
Bias/fallacy 5. The video is not concerned about subjective harm, only about sin and fraud.
Example 1: The tragic case of the girl, whose father was paid by Kinsey for taking notes during his abuse of his own daughter.
In Tate's documentary, she was presented as a suffering woman having been traumatized by an outrageous act.
In the religious video, she was presented as a witness of Kinsey's sin and fraud, her lifelong suffering was omitted.
Example 2: A man is interviewed about having ended his pornography addiction due to in his own words his 'fear of god'. There was not one word of consideration, guilt or remorse concerning the victims abused directly and personally by him or indirectly by the production of the pornography. He did not change his behavior to stop harming others, only himself. He subjectively stopped to sin, not to harm.
Bias/fallacy 6. The video implicitly shows the christian attitude, that nothing done to an adult woman is a sin bad enough to be mentioned, let alone condemned. In the christian world view, women are meant to suffer and to wait in patience until their god does his job to compensate them after their death for the plight.
Bias/fallacy 5. The video is not concerned about subjective harm, only about sin and fraud.
Example 1: The tragic case of the girl, whose father was paid by Kinsey for taking notes during his abuse of his own daughter.
In Tate's documentary, she was presented as a suffering woman having been traumatized by an outrageous act.
In the religious video, she was presented as a witness of Kinsey's sin and fraud, her lifelong suffering was omitted.
Example 2: A man is interviewed about having ended his pornography addiction due to in his own words his 'fear of god'. There was not one word of consideration, guilt or remorse concerning the victims abused directly and personally by him or indirectly by the production of the pornography. He did not change his behavior to stop harming others, only himself. He subjectively stopped to sin, not to harm.
Bias/fallacy 6. The video implicitly shows the christian attitude, that nothing done to an adult woman is a sin bad enough to be mentioned, let alone condemned. In the christian world view, women are meant to suffer and to wait in patience until their god does his job to compensate them after their death for the plight.
The video's attributing a lot of harm to children to the influence of pornographic magazines like Playboy is very stringent. But there is not the least logical reason to protest against harm only when the victims are children, but to completely omit all of the harm done to women in the video's entire duration is over two hours.
It is absurd to consider women as growing up automatically for the destiny of sufferings by male abuse and commodtification. Harm to adult women is misinterpreted as a god's will, which therefore cannot be a sin to bother about.
In addition of being already apistic, because this fits my rationality, any belief system, in which morals do not serve to protect and prevent all people equally from being harmed and abused, is as repulsive as it is dangerous.
in the above example, the immorality of alleged morals happens to be christian, but this is just one example, some other religions inflict even more drastic harm on the victims by the alleged justification of a cruel pseudo-moral.
In addition of being already apistic, because this fits my rationality, any belief system, in which morals do not serve to protect and prevent all people equally from being harmed and abused, is as repulsive as it is dangerous.
in the above example, the immorality of alleged morals happens to be christian, but this is just one example, some other religions inflict even more drastic harm on the victims by the alleged justification of a cruel pseudo-moral.
