Moral Authority?

What or who has moral authority?

What or Who decides that someone is sufficiently righteous so as to be qualified to stand as an authority figure in matters of morality?

This concept to me (especially in the Jamaican context) appears to be quite fleeting and subjective.

The very ones that we know are of reprobate minds, lacking in a conscience (or possessing a skewed concept of right and wrong) are the ones we look to as polestars of morality. Usually political figures.

Their pious appeals to Christian sensibilities impress some, but for someone as cynical as I am, it infuriates me.

Who appointed you bastion of virtue? How dare you try to usurp an authority for which you are undeserving?

This brings me to our chief snake and despot:

Watch this asshole try his damnedest not to go Hulk on Sakur's petulant behind. The tension is palpable.

Bruce, kindly take away thyself with your smug, condescending, pseudo-philosophical bullshit. No one believes you.

As history has already proven (http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Golding-confesses-manatt_7605025, http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-suicidal-Bruce-Golding_7904637, http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100827/lead/lead6.html) your conniving ways preclude you from being taken seriously in any of your pronouncements of morality. I noticed how difficult it was for you to restrain yourself from beating your chest defiantly to prove to Sakur that in as much as you are a member of the intelligentsia you are also a man's man (in a Popeye the sailor man kinda way).

Bruce, give up and get out.

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