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Ladies and gentlemen: I give you utilitarianism. You have no value aside from your ability to make choices or feel good.
Now, combine that with aggressive statism where everyone is thought of as a charge of the state(you can't have positive legal rights without it). Suddenly anyone below what the anointed declare to be minimum health/happiness can be killed. There is no innocence, crime, rights, or justice, just judgement by those in power.
> “This change in views about euthanasia and assisted suicide are the result of a tide of increasing morality in our world,” he stated.
This is a transition from principled morality like natural law and virtue ethics to a utilitarian morality. Morality isn't increasing, it's morphing into the culture of death. The dead do not endure earthly suffering.
Articles:
The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies
by Kay Hymowitz, City Journal, The Manhattan Institute
Liberalism Versus Blacks by Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicated.
Books:
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell.
Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? by Walter Williams.
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason Riley.
To the ctrl-left, they see themselves as the Annointed, because of the school they went to and the credentials (note: I did not say degree) they earned while there, and that this therefore grant them the moral authority to dictate to everyone not like them how to live their life.
All of you really need to read Visions of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell. So much of what the SJW does will be made perfectly clear to you once you do.
https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy-ebook/dp/B002TZ3D1M/
It's a fascinating book. You can find used copies for around $1 +5 s/h on half.com or amazon used books. He has other books that address race that are equally intriguing.
Black Rednecks & White Liberals is the only on available on Youtube. You can find many of his interviews with the Hoover Institute on Youtube though.
Other texts he's written on race include....
Intellectuals and Race
>Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.
>The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views of race in these two eras were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both eras.
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles Paperback – June 5, 2007
>In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the “constrained” vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the “unconstrained” vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. He describes how these two radically opposed views have manifested themselves in the political controversies of the past two centuries, including such contemporary issues as welfare reform, social justice, and crime. Updated to include sweeping political changes since its first publication in 1987, this revised edition of A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.
and my favorite....
The Vision of the Anointed Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
>Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites—the anointed—have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.