From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 01:19:31 MDT
Robert Bradbury wrote
> I'll simply point out that there appears to be a contradiction
> in Heston's position. On the one hand he seems to be celebrating
> disobedience of Dr. King and the Founding Fathers but yet on the
> other hand he seems to be critical of corporate interests promoting
> the "disobedience" of individuals like "Ice-T". There is a hint
> that one must disobey "Peacably, yes. Respectfully, of course
> Nonviolently, absolutely." yet in the final analysis Heston seems
> clearly in favor of violence where justified to revolt against
> the oppressors.
If we first, charitably, assume that there is no contradition, then
we may infer the guiding principle. Charlton Heston celebrates, as
you say, individuals with the qualities of Dr. King and John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington,. He then
deprecates the morals, motives, views., of people like "Ice-T". The
reason that this doesn't seem contradictory to me is that I too wish
to vigorously spread memes denouncing views harmful to creating
wealth and to forming strong and moral societies (i.e., those I agree
with). Heston is quite religious, and, ironically operates on the
same view that I do, only in his case it is also God's view of the
situation.
I'm still a moral relativist (like Russell Blackford) and haven't
yet been persuaded to the contrary by Mike Lorrey; I'll go over
to that thread and ask, "Why can't I admit that the universe consists
of only atoms in motion & there are no absolute morals, yet also join
those who strongly revile murder, theft, genocide, adultery, sloth,.?"
Lee
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