Reply #55: No, its about the clash of cultures

[Az]

The abortion debate and other issues are at the heart of an issue that is tearing our society in two.
This is largely reprinted from another thread but it is relevant to this situation.

We have a problem in this society. Post Modernism demands that we allow all cultures and beliefs to have an equal say in the process. This is the only way you can have a diverse society function. Shut someone down and they will reject the system and if their group is large enough they will bring it to its knees.

Thus we have all gone along in this society arm in arm. Admittedly we have had problems. We have had to learn that some voices were being unjustly silenced. So we expanded our understanding of rights. And we continued to progress.

But science and understanding progressed too. As it did so it began to knock the pillars out from under some beliefs. Those that could not weather such an assault died out. Their followers absorbed by the society. They joined other groups or became individual voices in the society.

But some belief systems were able to keep their hold on its adherants despite the pressures from society. And they learned how to use the tools of Post Modern society to drive a wedge into it. They try to posit that their beliefs and ways are threatened by the advances society has made and the teachings of science.

But because we cannot in good conscious unlearn the things we have we cannot allow them to drag us back into the dark ages. So they abandon the social contract and begin going after control of the society. Something has to give. Post Moderernism does not work in a progressive society for the simple fact that Post Modernism allows for individuals to not accept the things learned as a Post Modern society. It contains its own seeds of destruction.

So here we are. In a society that does not allow us to jetison any idea or culture being threatened by an idea that wants to jetison another idea. We have no way to directly confront this within our current social model.

The reason they are rejecting the social model is that their way of life is threatened.

Thus we have a situation in the abortion issue where society is forced to take a side. It cannot simultaneously support both views. The antichoice crowd insists their their morality take precidence. The choice crowd refuses to go back a step. Its all part of the clash set forward hundreds of years ago when humanity decided to speak up for itself and cast aside the reigns of dogmatic moral authority in the guise of the Church.