1. What is the most virtuous endeavor a person can do?
Being kind to those who can do you no good, and who society will mark you down for helping. From defending Alex Jones in a public debate, to serving a condemned child molester and murderer their request for a last meal. Staying unbent, when all of society seeks to bend you. Staying true to your word or your code when it counts rather than when it is fashionable and popular.
2. What is the opposite, the most sinful?
I believe the devil never lies, he suggests without lowering himself to outright lie. Those who are fashionably moral, but inwardly vain. Those who join journalism for the finest of reasons but fail the test and serve the beast of advertisement and politics. Those who retract their help when criticized by onlookers, those who bend their morality to a mob's fickle emotions for popularity.
3. What' the frequency where you examine the morality of your actions?
Some morals are customs, you belong because you bear the weight of doing them. I notice when others don't follow. I notice when I do. I have been lucky to witness a form of Moral Beauty or two, a mother crying over the thought of what if what she had done had hurt her child. A man toiling because he promised to do a thing. People being shamed into turning on a majority and changing their minds for the sake of their morals. I recall these moments when I'm faced with doing the right thing or the easy thing.
4.a Did you form your own opinion on morality or did it derive from an authority? 4.b Which authority?
Psalms as an adult struggling with faith, Aesop's fables which I read as a child, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius as an angsty atheist teen without a real father figure. Finding parables in my life, Alex Jones makes for a poor Socrates but I've defended him again and again against closed-minded do-gooders who command me to think a certain way where and when there are unanswered questions. I will not vote to condemn Socrates to die, it is a moral matter not a logical one. My morality forms itself from those occasions.
I think I would have a very tough time explaining the emotional tug of moral beauty but when you see something pure it compels you to act. Its like nothing else, its impossible to describe to someone who wasn't there or who has ever witnessed something like that.
5. If you did form your own opinion, what was the most defining moment in that development?
My father was a weak man morally, he couldn't conceive of me or my sister as people separate from what he wanted me to be. He was a violent man, and a drug user before he abandoned his family. During one of those times, I remember saying in a very detached way
"This is all that we will ever have, this is who you are" and he fled from me. I was a child and he cried out and ran. I think about that moment, that was the only time my father taught me anything about morality.
6a. Is there anyone you trust to have a better moral view than yourself? 6b. Why (not)?
The dead and the fictional, because their stories are fixed and over. I don't trust people to be moral without proper leadership and the pope is busy using Social Justice to project an image of himself like every corrupt rapist in Hollywood and international politics. When Iran says that it can't hit back over Soleimani's killing because America has only fictional heroes like SpongeBob SquarePants, I completely understand what they mean. Is Ben Shapiro or Sargon of Akkad supposed to help me to morally reason? Is Rabbi Yaacov Perrin supposed to help me to value human life because of our shared
"Judeo-Christian" values? There is nobody, and the silence is deafening.
7a. Do you think other people should follow your moral view? 7b. Do you remove people from your life that don't?
I think social customs should mark in-group and out-group because otherwise racial traits do. However I don't socially exclude those that fall back on using racial traits to form their in-group and out-group but I find their worrying after a white liberal woman hurting herself among migrants itself to be worrying. White liberals are, beyond any other group culturally, racially, or on matters of faith, my out-group. I will live among Black Christian-Americans before I live in California or northwards along the coast. Suffer not the consumer culture's morality of the drug addict and the fashion icon.
8. Do you have any experience where you were surprised for your own sense of justice or morality?
All the time, sometimes by my intuition that something is connected to a moral issue or that someone I'm with isn't to be trusted. Sometimes annoyingly that I'm going to have to do the moral thing alone and leave the crowd I'm with. I once met a man who I thought believed like me. Then he tried to get me to buy him a carton of expensive cigarettes, the premium brand, because he had fallen on tough times. He wouldn't accept a smoke, he wanted his brand. So I told him no. He then, very calmly, tried to rob me. I nearly killed him, over cigarettes. He didn't listen to a word I ever said, he lied to everyone he ever spoke to. He was completely simple and evil. I couldn't believe a man could be an animal so simply. He wouldn't leave me alone, he couldn't be reasoned with, so we fought and he lost. Very quickly from a conversation I genuinely was gladly a part of until he suddenly dropped a mask. If I was a woman, or smaller, who knows what he would have done? His stupidity saved me far more than my judgement. A man completely turned into an animal, in an instant, because I wouldn't read the red flags and judge a man.
9. What popular activity do you consider immoral?
"Crushing Puss"
I'm very happily married, but there was a youtube debater who asked someone
"whats the difference between a woman and a transwoman?" maybe it was Null or maybe Null featured it on Mad at the Internet? Maybe it was the Distributionist? It rattles around in my head when I think about my dating life before the wife and when I ponder why men and women are so broken. There isn't a difference, and so all of sex is just homosexual sodomy unless it led to marriage and family. I don't want to be the guy who promotes missionary-only and only for the purposes of procreation, but I no longer think its binary. There is a middle ground between that and chasing sex relentlessly as if it is a form of masturbation. Its stagnant, thats what I think is wrong about it. Obviously everyone should progress at their own pace, and enjoy life. But at some point, the girl you're with may as well be a dude. More and more, I think of the pervert and the sex pest as a queer form of homosexuality because it is just childish and stagnant. People wallow in it like its a drug lifestyle or a consoomerist trap.
Or Social Justice, but that is beating a dead horse. Lenin critiqued
"Ultra-leftism" which was his term for it in his work '
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder'. When the communists know better on Guns or Social Justice, just argue using their terms. It confuses the hell out of Justice Socialists.
10. What is popularly considered immoral, but you consider moral?
*SCREAMING HOARSE GERMAN NOISES*
Political extremisms of a actually wider set then you might imagine, Anti-centrism isn't just a joke for me. Bismarck's State Socialism created Worker Committees that administered health care through individual 'sickness funds' without nationalizing the health care industry. Monarchies which organize labor without destroying the free market seem far more moral than what AOC is up to in Congress. Intervene to organize the little guy into a more competitive form in the market, don't regulate the market into 2/3rds of your taxes while still privatizing profits. Restructure the demand side of the market, not the supply. Let that reorganize naturally.
