A Deuteronomy 22:13-21 event poster (Ѻ) aimed at highlighting “immoral” proscriptions in the Bible. |
A comparison of seeming morality and or “immorality” of similar molecules, namely the so-called homosexual molecules of oxygen (O2) and gays (M2 or F2) as compared to the so-called heterosexual molecules of carbon dioxide (CO) and straights (MF); a subject first broached by Goethe in 1809 in his third chapter (P1:C3) of Elective Affinities, wherein the Captain C displaces Eduard B from his relationship bond AB with Charlotte A, to form a new friendship union BC with him; some of which was touched on by Susan Gustafson in her Men Desiring Men: the Poetry of Same-Sex Identity and Desire in German Classicism. [8]
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The moral vs immoral gray area conceptually conflicting issues at hand in Mala Radhakrishnan’s 2011 “The Flirt and the Inert” poem. [6] |
M1 + M2 → M1≡M2
“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into ‘universal’, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God’s will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”
A “subjective morality” vs “objective morality” query (Ѻ); which seems amenable to chemical morality solution. |
“A women friend of mine said to Goethe at that time: ‘I cannot approve of Elective Affinities, Herr von Goethe; it really is an immoral book!’ According to her report Goethe was silent for a while and had then said with great earnestness: ‘I’m sorry you feel that way. It is my best book, and don’t think that this is the mere whim of an aging man. I grant you that one loves most deeply the child of one’s last marriage, the product of one’s late power of generation. But you wrong me and the book. The principle illustrated in the book is true and not immoral. But you must regard it from a broader point of view and understand that the conventional moral norms can turn into sheer immorality when applied to situations of this character.”— Heinrich Laube (1809), report on Goethe best book incident, late Dec [1]
“Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. Morality is then surrendered to the groundless arbitrariness of religion.”— Ludwig Feuerbach (c.1860) (Ѻ)
“The trouble is that too many people get chemical reactions all mixed up with morals. They call immoral what is only a normal chemical reaction.”— Thomas Dreier (1948), We Human Chemicals [2]
“Thermodynamics provides the physical possibilities for the actions that we consider both virtuous and immoral.”— Robert Russell (2008), “The Groaning of Creation” [2]