Martial Tai Chi™

Thinking Allowed

Trinities...

Never praise someone just because they've fulfilled their moral obligations - don't confuse obligation with liberty and certainly not with virtue.

If you want to play your music very loud and your neighbour does not want to hear it, you are not being virtuous if you turn it down for his or her sake. Not encroaching on the peace of others should surely be seen as a basic requirement.

There are scales - people who do not appreciate what they already have, conceptually build up their desires until they become needs become rights.

Considering others - or better, putting others first, goes from being an obligation to a liberty to a virtue.

Moral standards slip. As soon as a society starts to tolerate a vice, pressure groups will ensure that it will gain acceptance until it becomes an open embrace (or promotion).

The Scriptures set standards: do not let those standards slip. My Bible does not describe a a progression from conservative to liberal to anarchist, but from mercy to covenant to deliverance.