Just to remind everyone, the current politically correct errors may not be sinful. The deadly sins are pride, envy, lust, greed, sloth, wrath and despair (Acedia). They are not those things that annoy the SJWs.

In fact, if a SJW is against it, it is probably righteous: the only utility they have is the reliably point in the incorrect direction. Jesus does not liberate us from sexism, homophobia, racism and classism. He does liberate us from pride (the correct virtue is humility) but the SJW cherish that, and their sins are offenses against their overweening sense of entitlement.

Cashill, whose Kansas City library speech was broadcast on C-SPAN 2’s “Book TV,” said he came up with the idea of a religious theme for his book while watching a documentary on former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey. At one point in the documentary, a sign next to a church appeared onscreen that read, “Jesus liberates us from our sins of sexism, homophobia, racism, and classism.”

This caught Cashill’s attention.

“Now if the signboard had been a little bit bigger, it would have had ‘Islamophobia,’ ‘xenophobia,’ and ‘climate-change denialism,'” he quipped. “Those are the seven deadly sins of our era, and God help the man or woman who violates one.”

Cashill, a WND columnist, pointed out hatred is the one sin that underlies the other seven: racists hate black people, sexists hate women, homophobes hate homosexuals, and so on. But if you think the neo-Puritans themselves are all about love, you would be wrong.

“Now the neo-Puritan elect, and this is the odd thing about them … they have less interest in celebrating their own values than they do in condemning those people who resist the celebration,” Cashill said. “They take joy in that. For them it’s almost as good as eating organic or occupying something.”

This brings me back to Taleb. One of the ethical principles he has is that those who eschew risk — who have no skin in the game — should not regulate those who have put their lives and their reputations on the line. Those who take no risks do not suffer the consequences of their regulations.

He calls these people the fraglistas: those who think that with the correct policies and procedures one can manage the uncertainty of this life. He calls this false idea the Harvard-Soviet delusion.

But… in real life one cannot be certain. If you own shares in a well run business — say the local Airline (which I do own, for disclosures sake) you cannot predict that a plane will disappear. (Though it is not unknown: it happened to two Air Malaysia planes last year). What you can predict is that the share price will tank following such an event.

I cannot predict when a severe storm will remove the remaining half of the dunes that keep South Dunedin — which is below sea level — from being flooded will happen. But half of the dunes went this winter.

What we can do is listen more to those who do than those who want to regulate from warm offices. And keep accountability close to the practitioner. For he alone can make things safe.

The virtues are not homophilia, tolerance and socialism. They are love, faith, hope, humility faithfulness and honesty: there is no law against these and all agree they are needed. Against such there is no law, and let not those who would make you weak and fragile regulate them.