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作者：nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
nunia: 30 分。遥遥领先。
One of the preconditions of a civilization is that there is a
fundamental ethical baseline below which it cannot be allowed to fall.
Unless there is a deep and massive and unthinking commitment on the part
of most people to the well-being not merely of their children, but of
their children's children, then the essential transgenerational duty of
preserving the ethical baseline of our civilization will become a matter
of hit-and-miss. It may be performed, but there is no longer any
guarantee that it will be. The guarantee comes from shining examples.
文明的前提之一如同是存在一个不可逾越的伦理地平线. 除非大多数人不光对他们的后代，对后后代代的福利肩负广泛的、深刻的、不需思量的承诺，否则， 维护我们的文明社会的道德底线将成为“中不中得上彩票”的问题。 可能中上，但无任何保证。文明沿续的保障只可能通过树立光辉典范。
空爷：
If gay men and women want to create their own shining examples, they
must do this themselves, by their own actions and by their own
imagination. They must construct for themselves, out of their own unique
perspective on the world, an ethos that can be admired both by future
gay men and women and perhaps, eventually, by the rest of society. But
there can be no advantage to them if they insist on trying to co-opt the
shining example of an ethical tradition that they themselves have
abandoned in order to find their own way in the world. It will end only
in self-delusion and bitter disappointment
胖子：
Middle Americans have increasingly tolerated the experiments in living
of people like myself not out of stupidity, but out of the trustful
magnanimity that is one of the great gifts of the Protestant ethos to
our country and to the world. It is time for us all to begin tolerating
back. The first step would be a rapid retreat from even the slightest
whisper that marriage ever was or ever could be anything other than the
shining example that most Americans still hold so sacred within their
hearts, as they have every right to do. They have let us imagine the
world as we wish; it is time we begin to let them imagine it as they wish.
才女：
Even the most sophisticated of us have something to learn from the
fundamentalism of middle America. For stripped of its quaint and
antiquated ideological superstructure, there is a hard and solid kernel
of wisdom embodied in the visceral code by which fundamentalists raise
their children, and many of us, including many gay men like myself, are
thankful to have been raised by parents who were so unshakably committed
to the values of decency, and honesty, and integrity, and all those
other homespun and corny principles. Reject the theology if you wish,
but respect the ethical fundamentalism by which these people live: It is
not a weakness of intellect, but a strength of character.
燃然
The intelligentsia have no idea of the consequences that would ensue if
middle America lost its simple faith in God and its equally simple trust
in its fellow men. Their plain virtues and homespun beliefs are the
bedrock of decency and integrity in our nation and in the world. These
are the people who give their sons and daughters to defend the good and
to defeat the evil. If in their eyes this clear and simple distinction
is blurred through the dissemination of moral relativism and an
aesthetic of ethical frivolity, where else will human decency find such
willing and able defenders?
道爷：
If the reflective class, represented by intellectuals in the media and
the academic world, continues to undermine the ideological
superstructure of the visceral code operative among the "culturally
backward," it may eventually succeed in subverting and even destroying
the visceral code that has established the common high ethical baseline
of the average American--and it will have done all of this out of the
insane belief that abstract maxims concerning justice and tolerance can
take the place of a visceral code that is the outcome of the accumulated
cultural revolution of our long human past.
佳人：
We are witnessing the triumph of a Newspeak in which those who simply
wish to preserve their own way of life, to pass their core values down
to their grandchildren more or less intact, no longer even have a
language in which they can address their grievances. In this essay I
have tried to produce the roughest sketch of what such language might
look like and how it could be used to defend those values that represent
what Hegel called the substantive class of community--the class that
represents the ethical baseline of the society and whose ethical
solidity and unimaginativeness permit the high-spirited experimentation
of the reflective class to go forward without the risk of complete
societal collapse.
老By
This is how those fond of abstract reasoning can destroy the ethical
foundations of a society without anyone's noticing it. They throw up for
debate that which no one before ever thought about debating. They take
the collective visceral code that has bound parents to grandchildren
from time immemorial, in every culture known to man, and make of it a
topic for fashionable intellectual chatter.
Ask yourself what is so secure about the ethical baseline of our current
level of civilization that it might not be opened up for question, or
what deeply cherished way of doing things will suddenly be cast in the
role of a "residual personal prejudice."
芦D
Ethical fundamentalism
THE HIGH SOLEMNITY of marriage has been transgenerationally wired into
our visceral system. We must take it seriously and treat it solemnly,
and this "must" must appear to us at the level of second nature; it must
possess the quality of being ethically obvious. Marriage must not be
mocked or ridiculed. But can marriage keep its solemnity now? Who will
tell the rising generation that there are standards they must not fail
to meet if they wish to live in a way that their grandfathers could
respect?
中奖结止：过七日七点。
作者：nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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