We cannot accept the view of amoralists like Max Stirner that demean and dismiss any ethical standard to live by. People are born evil, the world is wicked and run by Satan, and children are born without sufficient good instincts to know how to act and live without long training and instruction from wise loving parents, the church and social institutions. As group-livers and emotionalist followers, allowing their selfish and destructive passion to run rampant, children will not do well or thrive in the jungle of tradition-less society. Children need an ethical system and religious faith to bring them to moral and spiritual healthy.
Still, non-aristotelians like Stirner have a point. Where custom, doctrine or faith are adhered to absolutely by true-believing millions of adherents, tyranny, intolerance, cruelty to differing believers and dissidents follow, and that cannot be countenanced.
In America, we want, deserve and require want ordered liberty in this constitutional republic under the rule of law. We insist that God and ethics guide our people but not too the degree unacceptable and stemming from theocratic fascism.
Some practices and behavior are evil, need to be called out as such and opposed by the majority of good, moral, law-abiding believers and citizens of society. Evil should be recognized, denounced and shut down early, fast and hard to keep society clean and honest.
We can enjoy virtue in the neighborhood without resorting to theocracy despotism to get there and stay ther
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