In the last little while I’ve been confronted with a few people, who, masquerading themselves as all-loving, all-liberated, and all-knowing, are really only concerned with their own image and sense of self-righteousness. Be all that you can, try as hard as you’re humanly capable of, live up to your own personal standard of strengths. But by no means does a legitimately earned sense of self-satisfaction gained from living life in a manner that upholds these personal standards and make you happy give you the right to self-righteously shame others for not living in that manner. These standards are arbitrary, change from person to person based on a multitude of contexts that you don’t even have the slightest idea of the scope of.
This has nothing to do with me lashing out over feeling ashamed over eating meat, having sex, or having smoked a handful of cigarettes in my life, because I most certainly am not. How dare you shame someone for a set of arbitrary standards that you choose to live up to! How dare you shame ‘sluts’ based on an arbitrary standard of promiscuity, and how dare you group people into polarised social categories, which are inherently difficult to remain within, and then shame them for breaking the confines of these categories that you created for someone else. I find that, although these kinds of people feel that they have a far superior moral compass, and are far more liberated than their lowly meat-eating, sexually active fellow man; these people are actually bigots, operating on a rigid, unnecessarily unwavering belief system that is based on one of a plethora of legitimate ways of living as a decent human being. It is part of life to change your beliefs, to constantly liberate yourself with new information, and to re-evaluate your way of living with every step. Not doing so is a disservice to yourself, and the pre-frontal cortex that allows us to achieve higher order thinking, cognition, reasoning and logic.
