{"id":3716,"date":"2023-11-22T02:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2024-09-30T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:46:07","slug":"moral-superiority-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/2023\/11\/22\/moral-superiority-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Superiority \u2014 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/smug_pastor.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3903\" width=\"512\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/smug_pastor.png 1024w, https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/smug_pastor-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/smug_pastor-768x482.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Morality is always superior<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the first article<a href=\"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/2022\/10\/22\/moral-superiority\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently gave a talk about moral superiority and was asked, &#8220;Yes, yes, but what of the people who have morals but do not consider themselves morally superior?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer: Having morals is always a case of moral superiority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A person subscribes to particular morals because they are &#8220;better&#8221; than other morals. Other morals are wrong or underdeveloped. If all morals were equal, they wouldn&#8217;t be morals, they&#8217;d be preferences. They would lose their weight as morals. If you say something is a law, but it&#8217;s fine for people to violate it and enforce contradictory laws, it is not a law. It&#8217;s a preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, but what of the people who have morals but do not consider themselves morally superior?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlywithdrawal.net\/tolton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}