Arguing With, and Refuting Lizz Winstead: Moral Relativism

A Simple Example of How to Refute Moral Relativism

By: Jay

I argued with Lez Winstead, I mean Lizz Winstead, today.  She’s the co-creator of the Daily Show, so you think she’d be intelligent and funny. However, in a spar with her femenemy, man, she ended up flustered. Yes, logic and humor were not what she was expecting to meet on Twitter from an actual male not in her trendy New York drag queen circles.  So let’s see how well ultra-liberal wit and reasoning stands up to masculinity. Let’s see how tolerant, level-headed and logical those of this ilk are.

Lizz tweeted how much she loved homosexual gayness, because, you know, it’s just inherently so beautiful and radical:

So let’s see that loving tolerance in action. What happens when you rationally challenge this claim on philosophical grounds? Liberals are into philosophy, right? Local universities, philosophy, liberals, etc., doesn’t that all sorta flow together into one large living Gaia?  Yes, you’d think.  So let’s analyze this. Note the reasoning – “happiness” is what is the justifying criteria for what constitutes moral affirmation.  So, if you say that, it follows that:

This is entirely reasonable. The ”tweet” claims that moral lifestyles are justified on the basis of the purported pleasure of “happiness” they bring.  Well, some people enjoy sex with animals, children and relatives.  What’s the enlightened, tolerant liberal response? “Shut the Fuck Up.”

So, because I responded with a logical query, that moral relativism leads to the conclusion that bestiality, incest, rape and torture are all ago, I’m a “hater”! Why, who are we to stop someones else’s “happiness,” we fascists?! How dare you! But wait! Lizz is a super liberal, who thinks that no one should impose their views on others.  But Lizz thinks Planned Parenthood is glorious and that feminism is totally awesome.  So, Lizz thinks it’s wrong to oppose these things and adhere to moral absolutes.  but Lizz imposes her worldview on others, even though you can’t impose your views on others, since that’s intolerant and not loving.  But who said “shut the fuck up” first? She did. That’s not loving liberal and is intolerant.  I was a “hater” for asking a logical question. So much for the beautiful “open mind” that the “liberals” are supposed to have.  My next response was more abrupt:

Moral relativism is the key foundation stone of all who take this route.  Moral relativism says that there are no absolutes in morals, period.  Those who argue this never explain how that very claim itself is supposed to be absolute, though, since there are no absolutes.  All moral claims are purely relative to the individual. No one, therefore, can claim that any thing is, strictly speaking, “wrong.”  There are only preferential and non-preferential actions.  Murdering babies isn’t wrong, per se (Lizz likes it, in fact), but is instead solely up to the determination of whatever the individual lists.  Not in a good mood today?  Baby-daddy ran away?  Just kill it.

If Lizz is such a supposed liberal, why does she support Planned Parenthood, which was founded to weed out blacks, as the video below shows?  That’s not very loving liberal or logical.  In other words, Lizz had no response, not even a funny one (given that she is supposed to be a “comedian”).  What’s her response? I, and anyone who believes in moral absolutes wants to have sex with dogs. You can’t make this up:

And you will see in a moment I am who she is responding to. So, because I pointed out that adopting moral relativism is contradictory, I actually want to have sex with dogs.  There is no comparison between homosexuality and incest and other actions.  But the point is not whether the actions are similar or of the same degree.  The point is that the justification for actions is based on whatever makes one “happy.”  No one can deny another person their hedonistic fleshfest (or furfest!).   In fact, that Lizz thinks actions like incest and rape are of a different category deemed offensive shows she still wants to have moral absolutes and standards. But wait! Why are you imposing again on others’ “freedoms”?  Why are you being a fascist again, seeking to tell the poor pedophiles and bestiality afficionados they are distasteful or aberrant?  Why are you being so judgmental. And furthermore, why are you being so judgmental against me? I clicked “follow” on Twitter because I thought you might be funny.  In response, I got hatred. It is not I who hate, but you. Read more of this post

The Death Penalty

Vindicating the Justice of the Death Penalty

By: Jay

It has become popular in certain circles of Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism, to oppose the death penalty as something “unchristian.”  I have had many discussions on this topic with professing Christians from all stripes.  However, this response usually comes from a misplaced “sentimentalism,” rather than the divine founts of Scripture and Tradition.  Purveyors of this anti-death penalty view usually fall back on saying that “God is love,” or they cite an obscure saint somewhere who was overflowing with compassion and hated to see men die.  While I understand the compassion in mind here, we need not be more compassionate than Christ Himself.  God is love, but He is also just (Matt. 12:18).  But, “evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand all” (Prov. 28:5).

The usual response at this point is that, “if one opposes abortion, he must also oppose the death penalty.”  This confuses two issues.  All murders are killings, but not all killings are murders.  One can be just and is a virtue, while the other is a vice and a crime.  God Himself ordained civil government to be a restraint on the wickedness of men, and part of that ordination includes the death penalty.  In Genesis 9:6, God states that whoever sheds man’s blood, deserves to have his blood shed because he has defaced the image of God.  Such is God’s reasoning. Read more of this post

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