Re: Is fear…
Peace Gora Kala
The god of devils - why did you use this self-created metaphor to represent the term “root cause”? The term “god” was enough … although I dislike that word … I prefer to use “instigator” or “initiator” instead.
According to Plato a candidate for root cause cannot be the real root cause if it’s presence is responsible for making two opposites manifest. For example …
There is a medicine X - Three people are ill, all three take the medicine, one dies slowly, another dies quickly and the third gets better.
The one who gets better medicine X worked for him, the one who dies quickly the medicine was poison for him, the one who dies slowly the medicine was not suitable to cure his particular illness.
We cannot therefore say that medicine X is the cure to illness, but we can say medicine X is the cure to illness of a given variety provided the person is not allergic to the medicine.
In which case “fear” cannot be the “root cause” for immorality … it has to be more sophisticated than that … I follow to say that it is “misplaced fear whilst having imbalanced wisdom” that will always lead to immorality. In this case morality is taken to be what the person himself considers to be moral and not imposing my idea of morality.