{"id":91,"date":"2014-01-16T02:57:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T09:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2014-01-16T02:59:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T09:59:13","slug":"morality-is-an-elephant-and-we-are-the-blind-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/16\/morality-is-an-elephant-and-we-are-the-blind-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Morality is an Elephant and We Are the Blind Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was re-watching the pilot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2314792\/\">Low Winter Sun<\/a>, and was struck by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0416694\/?ref_=tt_cl_t2\">Lennie James&#8217;<\/a> commentary on morality as they get ready to kill a fellow police officer. He explains that most people view morality as black and white. Then, some will go to a cocktail party and say it is gray. The character&#8217;s observation is that morality is a strobe, jumping all over the place. That made me think on the subject more deeply than I normally would. I don&#8217;t know what the writers&#8217; intentions were there exactly, but it was an excellent line for an actor that is superb at playing complex, morally questionable characters.<\/p>\n<p>Further thought led me to a more global view of the subjective morality strobe. The analogy that comes to mind is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blind_men_and_an_elephant\">the story of blind men inspecting an elephant<\/a>. Each has a different idea of what the elephant is. Since they can&#8217;t see from one another&#8217;s perspective, they don&#8217;t completely understand the elephant or each other. Their disagreement leads to conflict, and none of them know the truth, but presume they do or find themselves confused by a barrage of differing opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was re-watching the pilot of Low Winter Sun, and was struck by Lennie James&#8217; commentary on morality as they get ready to kill a fellow police officer. He explains that most people view morality as black and white. Then, some will go to a cocktail party and say it is gray. The character&#8217;s observation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entangledcontinua.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}