Abolqasem Fanaei: Insisting on specific instances of a general moral value is a moral deviation

A person who is sensitive about homosexuality and wine-drinking and dons a shroud to combat clapping and foul language, yet shows no sensitivity whatsoever toward despotism, political oppression, violence, discrimination, and the violation of people's rights, their sensitivities are not moral sensitivities. Likewise, someone who emphasizes economic justice and the equitable distribution of wealth, but is indifferent to political justice and the equitable distribution of power (i.e., democracy), cannot claim that their concern is a moral concern stemming from moral considerations. Indeed, the sincerity of such individuals must be viewed with doubt. In truth, excessive emphasis on certain second- and third-tier moral values, or insisting on specific instances of a general moral value, is itself considered a form of moral deviation, because such emphasis causes the individual and society to become heedless of and indifferent to the violation of more important moral values. And if someone truly has a concern for preserving values, the degree of importance they attach to values and the sensitivity they show toward their violation will inevitably not be uniform; rather, it will be proportionate to the degree of importance of those values themselves, and in situations of conflict and rivalry, they will sacrifice less important values for more important ones, and in defending values, they will first address the more important ones, and will not commit greater wrongs to prevent a single wrong.

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Abolqasem Fanaei: Insisting on specific instances of a general moral value is a moral deviation

Dr. Abolqasem Fanaei, Ethics of Theology, pp. 104-105

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