Dear Editor,
Despite his recent meltdown, it is not surprising that pop star Justin Bieber continues to have plenty of "Beliebers" throughout the world.
Very little of what we believe today is based on objective truth but rather on mere sophistries manufactured by the media, lobby groups, Government and advertising. For all intents and purposes, we live in a virtual world of fragmented images and half-truths.
In this virtual world, when we like a person we tend to praise their most insignificant feats as well make excuses for all the wrongs they do. When we don' t like someone we tend to belittle their achievements and even invent bad things about them.
This is evident, I believe, not only in our personal relationships with others, but especially in the world of entertainment, religion and politics.
When objective truth and morality die we are left to our own devices, and the sad result is a world of selfishness and false compassion, a world without love. The darker side of this spectrum is the harsh infestation of abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage, easy divorce, genetic manipulation, and euthanasia on our world.
Paul Kokoski
Ontario, Canada
pkokoski@shaw.ca
Society's moral decay
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Despite his recent meltdown, it is not surprising that pop star Justin Bieber continues to have plenty of "Beliebers" throughout the world.
Very little of what we believe today is based on objective truth but rather on mere sophistries manufactured by the media, lobby groups, Government and advertising. For all intents and purposes, we live in a virtual world of fragmented images and half-truths.
In this virtual world, when we like a person we tend to praise their most insignificant feats as well make excuses for all the wrongs they do. When we don' t like someone we tend to belittle their achievements and even invent bad things about them.
This is evident, I believe, not only in our personal relationships with others, but especially in the world of entertainment, religion and politics.
When objective truth and morality die we are left to our own devices, and the sad result is a world of selfishness and false compassion, a world without love. The darker side of this spectrum is the harsh infestation of abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage, easy divorce, genetic manipulation, and euthanasia on our world.
Paul Kokoski
Ontario, Canada
pkokoski@shaw.ca
Society's moral decay
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