lindajoy wrote:
If we did not project personal interests into society what would have molded society in its humanistic nature, to be good to all, judge not,heck,right back to the very basics of right and wrong..?? OR do you see them as inherent traits forming out of existence itself???
Well, I did say it was seemingly paradoxical, because the inevitable dillema has to be confronted as a litmus test in order to either strive to survive personally, or go down.
That's mainly because our individual leader in a position of social leadership accepts the challenge or ops-out, if he qiuits, and rarely does this ever happen, usually he's attacked by the contemporaries that he competed with to be in the position he won.
Naturally then the more bipartisanship existing between rival leaders the better for them it is, and so, this is always causing a security at the top for enterprise to exist under it.
Tribal,Feudal, Communal, and Capital driven social structures all embraced this methodology of providing security for leaders who become the architects of social punishments and rewards.
So function within paradox becomes competitive aspiring leaders strutting their Ideologies as deductive reasoning where one priority must be upheld at the expense of another because of limited resources available trying to match insatiable wants.
Alas, Confucius said this must inevitably lead to a concentration of wealth until the expectations can no longer be addressed, and then the leaders would be replaced by their immediate underlings, this is what Trump represented 13 months ago.
And it tends to happen much more in capital oriented society which China was, the very first one, very much so in the 4C BC when Confucius lived, and China is still exactly the same today, except the foot binding and castration has been forbidden.
Morality can't be reflected by a leaders capacity to understand social systems as a best one to pattern his leadership on, he'd be talking to himself.
So the leader that is aspiring to lead his community is limited by the inherent opportunities available to him.
If a conceivable opportunity is available and our leader has knowledge of it, but rejects that course of social construction for a personal reason, say for example, improving his personal bottom line, then we say that leader is corrupt.
I see it as intrinsic traits emanating from what is possible, and possible is a capacity for agreement within known beliefs that are already accepted by social contemporaries.
The highest priority is usually legal statutes, and legislated requirements, following that is reasoning underpinning personal beliefs that have broad agreement and after them are not so popular ones.
So the past being modified to suit the requirements of the present leadership is usually the threat to the highest priority within possibility, thus destroying possible fruitful social endeavours enhancing equal opportunity.
This methodology is built up from empirical development and not from a moral standpoint, to imply that deductive reasoning came from Theology either Christian or Muslim or even Abstract Thinking thinking itself is to say that Practical Concerns are not the highest priority, which we all know they are now, and always have been.