Check out: Part III: "Moral judgments on ourselves; the sense of duty" chapter 2 titled "The love of praise and of praiseworthiness; the dread of blame and of blameworthiness"

https://www.earlymodernt...sets/pdfs/smith1759.pdf

The whole book is the best exploration on the question of ethics that I have ever read.

who stopped them from complaining? taking offense is not a democratic event

Yes, Adam Smith was a great thinker and the idea of finding praise and praiseworthiness is important. In this case I wonder how such criteria applies to the sample list.

Given that in a population sample one can't fail to find sympathizers and critiques in perhaps equal share, we may need to find out who our sample members wish to please.

Sacked Wallabies fullback Israel Folau launched legal action Thursday against Rugby Australia's decision to dismiss him over homophobic social media posts, saying he was seeking "substantial remedies" from the governing body.

The devout Christian said he was defending freedom of religion by taking his case to Australia's employment watchdog the Fair Workplace Commission.

"No Australian of any faith should be fired for practising their religion," the 30-year-old said in a statement.


It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the courts.

I have seen gays beaten, jailed, killed and so forth. I have yet to see anything happen to adulterers or drunks. Please enlighten us on how these people are persecuted.

Secondly Folau is a hypocrite and I don't feel sorry for him. He has tattoos all over his chest and arms yet the Bible forbids tattoos.

Leviticus 19:28: ”You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord.”

Also The Bible forbids judging others:

Mathew 7:1 : "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."

And finally, The team sponsors dont want Folau back, many of Folau's team-mates dont want to play with him anymore. The wallabies coach doesn't want him. The League he used to play in (AFL) does not want him. No European team will sign him. So at this point there is no point giving him his contract back if he will create disharmony within the team.

I've come to see that most times we seek heroism in matters that are not even important using such dramatic methods that in our simple mindedness we believe in such fake heroism.

Martyrdom isn't even as important as I thought previously.

Interesting Snowden interview with Joe Regan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw