[adyashakti]

what seems obvious from this and other articles these days is that western materialistic atheistic capitalist culture has lost its moral compass and has become utterly corrupt—and the disease begins at, and is spread by, the powerful.

[pjmlp]

Ironically, just like all religions when one does a criticial analysis of what is preached, and what most people end up doing, especially the ultra radical ones.

Or does a comparisasion between pagan religions, and the ones officially accepted as such in modern times.

Naturally this is heresy, as too much knowledge isn't called for when discussing religions.

[dboreham]

Having no moral compass is a feature not a bug. There's supposed to be a government generally maintaining the population's long term interests as a balancing force. The USA lacks that. The capitalists got the root password.

[palmotea]

> Having no moral compass is a feature not a bug.

Having no moral compass is definitely a bug. It's utterly insane to think that's a feature.

> There's supposed to be a government generally maintaining the population's long term interests as a balancing force. The USA lacks that. The capitalists got the root password.

The government is a fail-safe, and to work in that capacity, it relies on people generally trying to do good most of the time.

The idea that it's supposed to be the only moral check on everyone's actions is an insane, unworkable, and surprisingly common idea. My guess is it's pushed and promoted by people who want to get away with their own bad behavior. Stupid software engineers, like stupid software engineers tend to do, believe what they're told, especially if it's some mechanistic kind rule that appeals to the way we think about computer systems (e.g. maybe separation of concerns in this case).