"only an arrogant asshole thinks he is fit to decide what is moral for anyone else." - smittyThe great enemy of morality is indifference.” — Albert Schweitzer
i'm not indifferent just because i don't get outraged over, well, absolutely nothing.
my morals tell me that we need to ban assault weapons before they kill any more school kids or people shopping for groceries.
my morals tell me we should do everything we can to protect this planet before it's too late.
my morals tell me it's wrong to discuss my infant daughter's future legs and breasts.
my morals tell me it's wrong to grab women by the pussy.
my morals tell me it's wrong to make fun of a handicapped reporter.
my morals tell me it's wrong to mock gold star families.
let me know if you need more, since you're so big on "morals."
anyway, it's hilarious that you quoted albert schweitzer. know what else he said? it's a bit longer than one line with no context.
Our culture divides people into two classes: civilized men, a title bestowed on the persons who do the classifying; and others, who have only the human form, who may perish or go to the dogs for all the 'civilized men' care.
Oh, this 'noble' culture of ours! It speaks so piously of human dignity and human rights and then disregards this dignity and these rights of countless millions and treads them underfoot, only because they live overseas or because their skins are of different colour or because they cannot help themselves. This culture does not know how hollow and miserable and full of glib talk it is, how common it looks to those who follow it across the seas and see what it has done there, and this culture has no right to speak of personal dignity and human rights...
I will not enumerate all the crimes that have been committed under the pretext of justice. People robbed native inhabitants of their land, made slaves of them, let loose the scum of mankind upon them. Think of the atrocities that were perpetrated upon people made subservient to us, how systematically we have ruined them with our alcoholic 'gifts', and everything else we have done... We decimate them, and then, by the stroke of a pen, we take their land so they have nothing left at all...
If all this oppression and all this sin and shame are perpetrated under the eye of the German God, or the American God, or the British God, and if our states do not feel obliged first to lay aside their claim to be 'Christian'—then the name of Jesus is blasphemed and made a mockery. And the Christianity of our states is blasphemed and made a mockery before those poor people. The name of Jesus has become a curse, and our Christianity—yours and mine—has become a falsehood and a disgrace, if the crimes are not atoned for in the very place where they were instigated. For every person who committed an atrocity in Jesus' name, someone must step in to help in Jesus' name; for every person who robbed, someone must bring a replacement; for everyone who cursed, someone must bless.
that's from a sermon he gave in 1905. hmmmm... sounds like it still applies today. do you know anyone who "disregards this dignity and these rights of countless millions and treads them underfoot, only because they live overseas or because their skins are of different colour or because they cannot help themselves."? maybe somebody who refers to "shit hole countries"?