05-08-2014, 09:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2014, 09:36 PM by Adonai One.)
(05-08-2014, 05:39 PM)reeay Wrote: There are really great ways to bring up kids without using fear tactics or even punishment (e.g., giving children consequences). What you are thinking is some oppressive and 'authoritarian' tendencies which is not what this theory is about. You can have 'authoritative' parents who guide their children with love and rules. When the kids are able to increasingly think for themselves, parents begin to back off and let them make their choices. They can then grow up to make decisions based on their internal compass rather than what society or what their religion or new age channeled entity or whoever told them is the 'right way' to think. I think perhaps you might benefit from reading more closely on the topic of post-conventional stages.
A negation of one behavior leads to the negation of another. When does the chain end? When does it change from benevolence to authoritarian and vice-versa? When does the moderation of the authority begin and end? By what authority, by what decree? When is perfection attained? When will academia have an answer?
The answer is: Never. It hasn't ended for quite awhile and I have no hope in this system of thought. I await the day academia realizes that it is incapable of finding truth through this method of thought.
Every rule is a negation of something. An allowance of a thing is decreeing something is not allowed. It is all negations. Negation begets negation. This is not a way I will seek.
I know what social contract theory is, I know what moral absolutism is. It has no place in my life.
When moral knowingness is attained will we have the wisdom to know it or will we have an empty shell of a person whose every desire and belief has been denied by universal ethics backed by the social contract of the United States of Earth and the Academic Ministry of Psychology?