I probably wasn't clear enough with this in my post; my impression is that the morality-bit comes into play with people who're pretty into their religious nonsense. Of course since the number of my American buddies is pretty limited I am exposed to America mostly through the Internet and the broadcast media, so the religious jackasses are probably over-represented, but that's in fact another problem for America altogether. Anyway, yes, even if one isn't obsessed with morality and sodomy, people also place a huge emphasis on fairness and then get stuck in the same reward-punishment apparatus that's not the best possible framework for social engineering.
It's not his absurd logic, it's the logic of the people who subscribe to the theory of punishments and rewards. The CEO who got fired did something wrong, and are being punished. I guess they didn't really deserve to be a CEO, then.Their success is a sham, a mockery of the true working of the system, and boy aren't we glad he got fired and exposed as the sack of flaws that he surely is, because he got fired! Maybe he has sex with underage boys, hm....Originally Posted by Low-key