Conservatives harp on personal morality in an extreme way as a replacement for social morality. They then operate as if there were no such thing as social morality.

Personal morality is summarized by the Ten Commandments. Social morality was the primary focus of Christ's. He said little about personal morality except that the Ten Commandments still apply.

The essence of social morality is overcoming oppression, which includes exploitation and degradation. A psychological conditioned desire to dominate is the driving force which creates oppression.

Morality is that which sustains life. Constructivity is the essence of morality. The purpose of morality is for people to get along in such a way that they solve their problems instead of create them when including the long term and total results instead of short term effects which result in extended problems. Christ referred to the result as "eternal life".

Notice that social morality is an extension of the personal significance of morality into the totality of social existence. Oppressors attempt to rationalize and justify their broad social effects as being immune to the morality which applies at the personal level. In fact, they reverse morality at the broad social level claiming that transgression is a more responsible way to solve problems. They always claim to have a higher purpose for any amount of destructivity. When the end result is negative or destruction of life, they claim there were no other alternatives.

The alternative to destructivity is a constructive standard which applies all of the time for all purposes. A common slogan for it is, "The end does not justify the means." The standards are always supposed to be moral, and when not, the end will always be destructive. Corrupters do not accept this fact; moralists insist on it. Corrupters claim that when problems get serious, throwing out the laws and moral standards is necessary for solving them.

Morality is designed to promote constructivity. The requirements do not change with the size of the problem. The only thing that changes with the size of the problem is the tendency of corrupters to misrepresent the subject. They ignore extended concerns and claim some narrowly defined contrivance is the only concern. In fact, they tend to create the problem which needs fixing, so they can dominate, oppress, exploit and degrade as the supposed solution.

The standards which apply at both the micro and macro level are summarized by the "golden rule," which says, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". How many power mongers throwing their weight around would want others to do the same thing to themselves? They turn hell over to prevent it.

Why then is the golden rule a moral requirement, and what is its significance? No one is more demanding upon others than corrupt persons. Steal a penny from them, and you pay. They thereby tell us what they demand from others, and so self-righteously so. It is an unbending law. Then why should it not apply to themselves? Why should they be violating the laws which they demand of others?

There is a reason why anyone demands standards of others. It's impossible to solve problems and survive without adherence to basic laws and standards. This is why corrupters are so self-righteous. But they are also so blind and mindless that they don't know others require the same laws and standards for survival as themselves.

Survival and solving problems require that people have the ability, right and freedom to make decisions regarding the cause and solutions to their problems. This is why the U.S. Constitution says that basic rights are "self-evident and inalienable." Corrupters claim the self-evident and inalienable rights can be trashed to fix some problem. They are the number one problem. They destroy the ability of people to solve their problems by violating the self-evident and inalienable rights required to sustain life.

But oppressors claim that persons who are the focus of their wrath lost their rights by doing something wrong. That claim puts them in conflict with the U.S. Constitution which says certain rights are inalienable. And many of the same persons took an oath to uphold the Constitution.