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Saturday, August 31, 2024

There is No Relativism

By Anna Von Reitz

One of our Coordinators recently reached out to me because of the creeping crud called "relativism" rearing its head among Assembly Members, let me remind everyone that relativism is a foreign concept imported here in the early 20th Century by Academic Communists.

It is one of the implementations of the Communist Manifesto to promote cultural, religious, and moral relativism as a deliberate means of undermining the integrity of all three.

Here is what we are talking about:

"I robbed a bank, because banks are rich and I needed money."

"It was a lie --- depending on how you look at it."

"I wasn't raping my daughter, I was loving her."

These are examples of "relativism" --- which says, "Everything is relative." It reduces standards and applies excuses for bad behaviors, including criminal behaviors.

"I cheated on my wife, because I was bored and lonely" is an explanation, even a confession.

Relativism twists it, so it becomes, "I cheated on my wife, because she was bored and lonely."

"I'm not fat because I was eating 15,000 calories a day for ten years. Calories are just theoretical unit measures of heat."

"Sex is a matter of how you view your identity."

"He's my Significant Other."

"He's not dead, he's being recycled."

Relativism bends reality. There's no right or wrong, no he or she, no standard of truth or fact, just a willingness to blur rational distinctions and standards, by applying new labels and euphemisms.

We start arguing over pronouns.

A man becomes a hue-man, and a hue-man becomes a trans-human, and each step represents a further denigration of social status and peels away contractual protections owed to the unwary victims.

This kind of sloppy thinking results in being disconnected from reality and increasing moral relativism results in people accepting the idea that, hey, cannibalism is okay. Raping little kids is okay. Six year-olds can consent.

Upon hearing that the Ten Commandments undergird the Common Law of the Western World, we have people saying, oh, no, I can't accept that as a standard of behavior. I'm not religious and you are supposed to honor separation of Church and State.

Using The Ten Commandments as a standard for the promulgation of Law is not the same as enforcing a religious belief.

If you can't agree that adultery (of various kinds) and robbery, murder, and false witness are wrong, and accept that much responsibility for your behavior, you don't belong in an American State Assembly.

The other people in an Assembly have the right to rely upon these basics being honored because this is our law and our custom.

Our law is not relative and our thinking about this is not fuzzy.

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