Left Wing Morality, Part I: Profits as a Sin

 “Thou shalt not covet…anything that is thy neighbor’s.”  God (As quoted in Exodus 20:17)

In American politics, conservatives often accuse liberals of taking positions that are morally wrong. Liberals throw the same accusation at conservatives. The argument is insoluble, because liberals and conservatives don’t believe in the same moral code.

“Right” and “wrong” are words that mean different things to different people. Muslims, for example, get their moral code from the Koran, which teaches that it is virtuous  to kill or enslave all non-Muslim “infidels” anywhere they can be found. Politically conservative Americans (even those who are not Jews or Christians) tend to accept a Judeo-Christian moral code based more or less on Biblical principles.

For American liberals it is politics, rather than religion, that defines all the important moral issues.

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