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Corrupt Morality Opinion by: Neil Schneeberg

Humans, through evolution have developed ways of dealing with each other that, as all traits brought through evolution, are meant to advance both the individual and race as a whole into longevity. This process governs the way we interact with each other, and although not uniform or universal, it is significant. The propensity to follow these natural laws is the basis for social interaction between all animals…all that is, but humans. Humankind, ever since its first excursion away from the natural world and into the synthetic abyss of civilization has adopted an anthropocentric viewpoint; we view the Earth, it's inhabitants, and it's resources not as autonomous life but as utility. 10,000 years ago the first gatherer-hunter tribes descended from tribalism to civilization, building the city of Ur. Laws were implemented in the city-state; values that were derived of context and reified. Having removed themselves from nature, natural laws were no longer of use to people who no longer considered themselves animals. At this point in time what was moral was what was lawful, as the ruler of society was one both politically and religiously. The State and religion served as a single body of domination. It wasn't until religion became distinct from the State that morality became distinct from law. Morality is a spook that's cast down from either God or as the secular philosophers will say: from Man. The purpose of morality is to keep you passive, to abstract your desires away into a concept. It is a method of self-servitude. Good and evil is something that is above you, that you have no control over; a fixed essence, one that if you tried to conquer you would realize ceases to be the spook it was and becomes merely perception. To leave morality behind is to throw away the human spirit, the spirit that makes humans think they're more than animals, the spirit that is the destroyer of the earth. To act how you feel, to do as you want is to be truly human. To love because loving is good is something I consider fake. To love because it brings you joy is something real and fulfilling. There is no "right" course of action, there is only the course you would enjoy most.