Morality Defined
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Morality is the basis for liberty. Morality is also the cause for so many evils committed by otherwise good hearted people trying to affect a change in other people’s behaviors through force of arms outside of the realm of their own direct self defense. From religion to government and the magic of guilt, morality is invoked to give authority to those who wish to control others.
Morality today is commonly misunderstood by appealing to some authority which dictates right from wrong with no clear litmus test.
It’s time to end the suffering. If we are going to leave a better world for our children, then we need to leave better children for the world. So we should lead by example and be the change we want to see in the world.
Jim Limber Davis
Jim Limber Davis was born to an American woman and a European father. He grew up in the Southern United States. Eventually he moved north, to Indiana, to be with his adopted daughter in 2005. Since then Mr. Davis has become very fond of history, economics, and fixing the terrible conditions that plague humanity. After being struck with a couple of layoffs beginning in 2010, Mr. Davis began rejecting government welfare entirely and set out to understand the problems that were causing his terrible luck.Above everything else, Mr. Davis is a man devoted to the principles of voluntaryism and nonaggression. In personal debates he is very passionate. He means what he says and he says what he means. He is very much the product of two systems set in eternal conflict with one another; tyranny and liberty. His life is nothing compared to that of characters such as Edmond Dantes, V, or Frodo Baggins. Jim Limber Davis is more of the individual who was caught up in a storm and pulled himself up without the aid of a priest and his treasure map, a special biological enhancement, or even the friendship of a wizard and might fellowship, but his own will and determination.Mr. Davis is a man like so many of us who is forgotten and left to fend for himself while the rest of society’s vultures pick what they can off his weaken state. He is one individual who is determined to make a positive change through voluntary and peaceful means or die trying.Mr. Davis is an avid reader and mostly self educated with some college experience. His self educated background is comprised mostly of spending hours searching and reading the documents that are scattered throughout American History. While most with a passion for history outside of a standard educational setting are avid readers of information compiled by others, Mr. Davis compiled the information himself by digging through the resources listed in the books written by others; and by spending hundreds of hours on the phone and personally going through several state archives.Many of his works he gives away for free. So if you're interested in encouraging more or just want to show a little appreciation, feel free to visit www.JimLimberDavis.com and donate!
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Morality Defined - Jim Limber Davis
A note to the reader about Morality Defined:
There will be many people who will swear vehemently at times that what you are about to read is wrong. They will demand that you proclaim obedience to their god, government, or personal guns. I implore you to read this work in its entirety. Do not stop until you have completed it. And before you go around telling people about it and how much they need to read it or why it is complete garbage, please sleep on the ideas first and give them a few days worth of serious consideration.
Real change doesn’t come at the end of a gun barrel. It occurs because one individual deems the change necessary in his or her mind before acting it out.
Morality Defined
By Jim Limber Davis
Copyright 2015 Jim Limber Davis
Smashwords Edition
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Table of Contents
Chapter 01
Morality Defined
Chapter 02
Morality Expanded
Chapter 03
Morality and Liberty
Chapter 04
Anarchy, Voluntaryism, and Government (Again)
Chapter 05
A-holes, Brutalists, and Jerks
Final Remarks
Chapter 01
Morality Defined
Morality, we all talk about it in various ways. It means a lot of things to a lot of different people. It’s invoked in political debate and used to do both good and evil by religious organizations, governments, and individuals alike. But what is it in definition?
Most dictionary entries and reference materials define morality as some kind of understanding between what is right and what is wrong. Others will take it a step further and explain in simple terms that morality is the understanding of what is right and wrong for the preservation of humanity in some roundabout way. But almost every definition of morality appeals to the idea that someone must interpret or instinctively know the differences between right and wrong; that there must be some kind of an authority, God or government for example to look to for approval.
In fact, many of us are even guilty of chastising others for not understanding what is right from wrong. We get into long drawn out conversations where some end up in verbal or physical fights. History even shows how different interpretations of morality lead to war between various cultures. And grudges are held for generations because of what we teach as morality; but no more.
Well, I wish it was no more. Even among the most brilliant minds in the liberty communities of thought, of yesteryear and today, there is much debate as to the foundation and definition of morality. As I’ve refined this idea to what it is currently, I’ve been met with ridicule by many. Often that ridicule has been condescending in language and supposed wisdom suggesting I’m just not quite there yet. Don’t worry kid. You’ll eventually figure out that all morality is subjective.
The truth is that everything is subjective because everything is open to interpretation because of all sorts of things like ‘X,’ ‘Y,’ and ‘Z’ which we cannot control. After quite a bit of thinking on my own that ran parallel with my thoughts on liberty, which you can read in my eBook Liberty Defined, I crafted this understanding of morality.
A lot of research went into understanding this concept. Not the kind of research where I would sit down in a library or test a hypothesis. What I did was strip down every moral and immoral act I could think of to its base concept, of why it was right and why it was wrong. I even compiled a list of things that were neither right nor wrong. What I didn’t do was take the time to read what others had to say about morality’s foundation, its definition. I merely