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Gary Novak
 
 

                 

Innate Worth and Self-righteousness
 

It's strange how self-righteous corrupters are. How could destructivity have some value, let alone necessity, to it?

Power is that way. Power promotes a strange, self-sanctifying attitude which says self is more worthy. It starts with the origin of corruption, and then people learn that attitude from corrupters. Unlearning it seems to be one of the problems in accepting moral truth. (Parenthetically, these are not invariable responses, like gravity. Persons who have abstract understanding and learn morality do not fall into the same traps of corrupters. This is why persons with power will show a variety of moral standards.)

So it's important to understand the origins of corruption and how it leads to the self-righteousness of sin. Corruption always has the same origins. Persons who lack sufficient abstract understanding assume that if they could prevail against others, it would solve their problems. There is no moral and constructive way to prevail against others. All sin follows. After sin becomes a habit, the starting point is forgotten.

It's as if the instant a corrupt person succeeds in prevailing against someone, his moral assumptions flip upside down. Instead of something telling him that his act is wrong, something seems to tell him that his act was necessary and constructive. Apparently, the reason is that the person was intending to do something necessary and constructive while choosing the sinful act. The success and positive reinforcement then convinces him that he succeeded in doing something necessary and constructive, while it was destructive.

This line of assumptions takes care of the need for corrupters to rationalize their sin. Sin isn't just sin, it is the noblest thing in existence.

Where it leads is to assumptions about innate worth. Power and the temporary success of sin create a positive reinforcement for sin. The positive reinforcement feels like something good; so it makes sin seem like something good.

The assumptions about doing something good and necessary tell corrupters that they are worth more. Since they have a problem with abstract understanding to start with, their assumptions are devoid of logic, and reactions misshape the results.

Sin creates a long chain of reactions. The immediate success of sin creates a positive reinforcement for stimulus-response reactions causing repetition of the sin. Later, the negative effects of sin are felt, but they do nothing to mitigate the sin, because the stimulus-response reactions are reinforced in a much shorter time frame while the positive reinforcement is occurring.

This greater innate worth with sin is a background assumption which infests all attitudes and values which go with corruption. It is a major part of elitism and bigotry and a less visible part of jealousy. It is taught in corrupt religion and spread through contagion of aberration. It shows up on the surface of politics as a war against the lower classes. How can conservatives be so self-righteous in taking from the needy to enhance the rich? This reaction is the reason. It tells corrupters that there is an innate self-worth to elitists and bigots who succeed in prevailing against vulnerable persons, so they deserver everything, and there would be a supposed injustice in allowing the unworthy to get anything.

This assumption also closes the door to truth and knowledge by providing a fake explanation for corruption in conflict with truth. Instead of domination being a destructive act, it is supposedly a necessity with the full force of a moral obligation. Everything must flow toward innate worth in that mind-muddled set of assumptions, attitudes and values.

Since real moral truth contradicts that assumption, it is not allowed. It is assumed to be a plot by enemies to perpetrate some injustice. All of the simple facts of the subject contradict the assumption of greater worth by the corrupters, so all truth must be opposed, and the result is nihilism (defined as willful ignorance).

Sin starts at the most frivolous point of assuming that prevailing against someone will solve the problems of the corrupter. It then requires more sin. The repetition of sinful habits, reinforced with positive rewards related to success and power, creates a psychological conditioning, where the patterns are carried out in a stimulus-response manner. Awareness drifts farther and farther away from the causes of the corruption, as patterns get more reactive.

This truth exposes the fraud of the greater worth of corrupters, as does all other truth and rationality. The conflict with truth cuts corrupters off from reality. At the same time forces develop in their minds due to reactions of all types. In this way, corrupters move out of the medium of realities, which defines life, and into a medium of forces, which destroys life. Their realities look absurd, because they don't care about realities, they are attempting to control forces, and sin is how forces are controlled.