thinkdr wrote:Prismatic567 wrote:thinkdr wrote:... someone... turned out to be a Trump supporter. And thus not ethically sensitive. For if one is ethically sensitive one early on detects a phony, a con-artist, or a would-be P.T. Barnum: -- in all U.S. history, has a President ever been more selfish, more corrupt?
When an individual Intrinsically values himself, identifies strongly with his own moral self, his uniqueness, his honesty, his sincerity he becomes more genuine, more moral.
We are to keep growing morally - if we know our Ethics.
...the more you are genuinely yourself, "the better you will be in your job, in your social role, and, in your thinking"
accordiang to Dr. R.S. Hartman, a leading authority in Value Analysis.
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Personally I do like his boorish and narcissistic behaviors. .
This latter sentence serves to confirm the case made earlier. Dr. Albert Bandura writes about Moral Integration. Our extremely-objective friend may lack such integration if he beholds a man -- who repeats a lie until it is a Big Lie [one that is repeated so often that gullible followers will eventually assume it to be true], and one who has authoritarian tendencies, who calls himself "a very stable genius" -- " and still gives such a character high marks.
Let us study and learn: what are the attributes of 'a good character'? And then, let's live up to that standard, and form the habits that comprise a good character. Let's be role-models. Let's set a good example.
That is hardcore ethics

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It was a mistake of omission, should be,
"Personally I do
NOT like his boorish and narcissistic behaviors ..."
Btw, are you familiar with
Situational Leadership Theory,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation ... hip_theoryTrump despite his many negatives [which are not evil] was/is the right person for the job in then 2016 and the current situation the USA is in.
Do you deny the US was losing loads of jobs to China, Mexico and elsewhere and Obama had declared stupidly "those jobs will never come back"?
Isn't it a fact Trump stamped his foot down and kept jobs from going abroad and brought back many of the jobs lost back to the USA?
During the Obama era, the evil laden Muslims of the Muslim brotherhood were crawling all over the White House and Trump disinfected them and cleaned them off from the White House.
Trump was aggressive with Islamist-terrorists and in concert with others got rid of ISIS' occupation of lands and their violence in the Syria and Iraq. This is why these days we don't read of much violence from Islamists, so you need to thank Trump for that.
Instead, there is more and more violence [BLM, Antifa] from the left as condoned by the majority of the left.
Those are some of the positive performances [among many others] of Trump which carry the heavier weights.
If the likes of Obama i.e. Hillary has won it would have been status quo and things would have gotten worse.
I don't see Trump making up deliberately lies that had turned big that is so serious to the detriment for the USA.
Point is, in politics, politicians often making general statements instead of getting into the details. I often wish leaders would get into more details but as leaders their task is not getting into details but rather made general and broad statements.
At times, I wish Trump should be more thoughtful of his statements.
But it is the net positive of the whole package of Trump that is necessary for the optimality of the situation and thus we have to accept and bear with the negatives [which I think is not serious] that come along.
As for hardcore ethics, humanity must strive to improve the moral competence of the average person to the point we don't have to need people like Trump to deal with and optimize the situation like it is currently.
I am a progressive human being, a World Citizen, NOT-a-theist and not religious.