[lbo-talk] Moral Foundations

[John Thornton]

My experiences with the ruling class tells me they expect each other to 
lie to one another with such frequency that the idea of a general 
prohibition against such behaviour is again meaningless.
Only within a small circle of friends is truthfulness _frequently_ 
expected but even then if one lies to another, if it is to the liars 
benefit but NOT to the detriment the person lied to, then all is still well.

John Thornton

Chris Doss wrote:
> The prohibition is against such behavior within one's own group, like murder and all that other stuff.
>
> --- On Thu, 12/25/08, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>   
>> In the US cheating and lying in service to the empire is
>> acceptable and encouraged although there is a preference not
>> to have the falsehoods publicly exposed.
>> Those behaviours also encouraged if used to make gobs of
>> money as long as you don't cheat and lie to members of
>> the ruling class.
>> Fleecing public funds and fleecing the working class by
>> deception is considered virtuous.
>> The exemptions on the prohibitions against lying and
>> cheating are so numerous as to make the idea of a general
>> prohibition against such behaviour pretty meaningless.
>>
>> John Thornton