Archived My real-life "Footloose": I grew up in a town that banned secular music (salon.com)
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Archived My real-life "Footloose": I grew up in a town that banned secular music (salon.com)
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[–] 1Iron_Curtain 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don't get why people get so stuck to religious systems of belief when it comes to how morality should operate and work.
I think there is something honorable in binding oneself to some religious tradition, based off the systems of virtue and ethics it explicates, but in general this does not detach from society, as it likes to believe, but on the basis of some pleasure/pain principle it likes to see itself operating and exercising its understanding in some transcendental and otherworldly sphere and there is no great dictatorship that can be found then when one claims that the concepts and subjective beliefs of one's religious world are based in some apriori world pertaining to some higher being.
Religion can be the highest form of egotism and can also contain some of the pristine forms of teleology which guide man towards a virtue filled life due in large part to the context of the story it tells and how this story can be bended and molded to achieve some higher set of particular social and cultural ideals.
I am personally of the belief that if one is not self-harming oneself or corrupting one's mind, which is what some secular music does, then one should not regulate it, and even if it does there are limits on how much we can oppose and shoot down the obscene, as long as basic laws are not being broken and as long as other people don't end up getting hurt.