There are no “Western moral values”

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readSep 18, 2021

Question from the Internet:

“How can Russia trust Western “moral values” if the last “Human zoo” was closed in Europe 60 years ago?”

“Western moral values” is an oxymoron just like “Europe” as an entity or “European values”.

Europe has always been a collection of hateful nations, constantly at war with each other, only united, agreed in colonizing, oppressing, exploiting others.

We can see how now “Europe” as an entity is on the verge of collapse again, since the dream of a single market for the benefit of the stronger nations is not working anymore.

Similarly “Western values” is about serving selfish personal, individual interest at the expense of others, enslaving, exploiting others when “personal freedom”, “expressing ourselves” means the lack of freedom for others. Western values are about “the strong feasts on the weak”, mistakenly self-justifying evolution as the “survival of the strongest bully”.

“European/Western” values symbolize the peak, the end-stage of selfish, egotistic, individualistic, and exploitative human development.

As our present human civilization is collapsing we received the chance to rethink — as the only species that can take its own development purposefully, consciously into its own hands — our purpose in life, what makes us truly Humans, what Nature’s relentless, deterministic evolution expects from us.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.