So who here has a moral objection to putting oneself on a moral pedestal? It's hard not to.
Idk. It's just something I've been thinking about watching the news yesterday. A boy had moral reasons not to wrestle a girl because he was brought up to not hurt women didn't want to touch her in a way that could be seen as intimate. My real problem dealt with the pundit who tried to attack him for having a different set of values than hers (in which case both the female wrestler interviewed in the segment and the talking head).
A full grown adult was putting this kid on television to humiliate him and label him as a chauvinist for doing what he thought was respecting women. Unfortunately for the poor kid, his morals are now seen as antiquated.
I'm not saying what he did was morally better than what the pundit would have proffered. I'm saying that the boy clearly has a seperate set of morals that has come from a culture in which being polite meant treating men and women differently. I can understand that the pundit was offended by what she saw as sexist but it's going to far to try to publicly humiliate a teenager for doing what he thought of as right.
Why not humiliate people for doing what they know is wrong with bad intentions?
Crap! There I go putting myself on a moral pedestal. I tried not to, thinking I could finish this in less than 5 mins but it apparently took more thought than I expected to not flat out insult someone who I disagreed with. The whole point of this blog was to point out how hard it is to not put on airs about having better morals but I found myself typing and deleting insults all throughout the writing process.
How does everybody else feel about this? Is it worth the effort to try to not look down on other peoples value? You can say no (I'll try not to judge you).
