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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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"Most rational and social justifications of unequal priviledge are clearly afterthoughts. The facts are created by the disproportion of power which exists in a given social system. The justifications are usually dictated by the desire of the men of power to hide the nakedness of their greed, and by the inclination of society itself to veil the brutal facts of human life from itself.This is a rather pathetic but understandable inclination ; since the facts of man's collective life easilly rob the average individual of confidence in the human enterprise. The inevitable hypocrisy , which is associated with all of the collective activities of the human race, springs chiefly from this source,: that individuals have a moral code which makes the actions of collective man an outrage to their conscience. They therefore invent romantic and moral interpretations of the real facts , preferring to obscure rather than reveal the true character of their collective behaviour. The fact that the hypocrisy of man's group behaviour expresses itself not only in terms of self-justification but in terms of moral justification of human behaviour in general, symbolises one of the tragedies of the human spirit, its inability to conform its collective life to its individual ideals. As individuals men believe that they ought to love and serve each other and establish justice between each other. As racial, economic and national groups they take for themselves whatever their power can command" Reinhold Nieburh Moral Man and Immoral Society
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