Basic Decency Is Not Enough

 

If most people follow the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule—that is practicing basic morality regularly, consistently, and faithfully—despite ordinary daily sinning—then that general level of good behavior, so vital and necessary, for society to function, will make the world a pretty fine place to live.

 

But that level of basic decent living is not sufficient to take humankind to a higher level of ethical living. As my Mavellonialist philosophy catches on, and majority practicing the principled of maverization, a new moral code is required, with basic morality acknowledged and lived, but then trying to be better persons, personally and individually, beyond that.

 

We are not naturally good, so our basic Christian/Muslim/Buddhist/Hindu moral training will help the young develop into living as good persons.

 

Even Nazis and members of the SS were kind to their own families and their Aryan neighbors while running crematoriums for Jew-killing and vicious torturing of dissenters and partisan foes.

 

In other words, it is easy to be courteous, generous, kind, and respectful towards someone belonging to one’s ingroup as a popular insider.

 

 

The new, higher level of morality requires this basic decency expressed in words and behavior towards insiders now to be extended to outsiders, from other competing groups, isolated individuals or individuators.

 

It is when we practice racism and bigotry against outsiders of all kinds imaginable, when we dehumanize them as inferior humans or sub-humans or as vermin, then we are able to compartmentalize our behavior towards alien others, treating them with discrimination and gaslighting, at a minimum, and then more aggressively with virulent hatred up to including mob action against them or by omission or commission allowing them to experience genocide.

 

When most people, in the not-too-distant future, follow the Divine Couple as living angels, as self-actualizing supercitizens, then it is imperative that this higher, more demanding moral code become almost universal. Moral business as usual will no longer suffice.