NECESSARY EVIL OF MORALITY
Morality is about love being right and justice being right as in principles.
It denies they are mere opinions or in any way arbitrary. Rules appear
when you to guide people in the ways of love and justice. Relativists talk
about morality but they redefine it as opinion. That is not morality at
all.
If morality is arbitrary or relative then it is based on power. It is the
product of power not of reason. But surely if morality is objectively true it is
also based on power? Or more so! The answer is that it is based on power but as
something has to be there is nothing too much wrong with that. Arbitrary
morality is just plain evil. It is guesswork and opinion posing as
obligations.
Relativists usually are relativists because they think the notion of objective
morality is about power and that is enough to make it a bad thing. The fact that
objective morality is needed means the power objection does not refute it for
anything else leads to worse power-mongering. Objective morality when thought
out right warns us to be as liberal as possible without watering down moral
principles.
The view that objective morality defends itself and needs no assistance accuses
those who disagree that what you have really is objective morality of blindness
and bigotry.
Morality is a necessary evil in the sense that it binds us and threatens us if
we refuse to obey it. Morality is self-justifying even if all you can manage to
show that is a process of elimination.
If morality is a necessary evil then its self-justification would be one too.
If we need justice and love then don't pretend that this is actually good.
It is necessary but not exactly good. It is the best of a bad lot.
Religion thrives on using God as a totem of goodness to attract people with warm
fuzzy feelings about "God's righteousness." That is anything but moral.