No moral standards = economic crisis

In light of our class mentioning Calvin and Hobbes with regard to the Screwtape letters,  I thought I would post this random comic I incidentallycame accross on Facebook today.

Perhaps the scenerio in this comic was what Lewis might have been envisioning before he made these remarks from the Business of Heaven, The Law of Human Nature:

People say things like that (what Calvin said) everyday, educated people,…and children. Now what interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man’s behaviour does not happen to please him. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behaviour which he expects the other man to know about. And the other man very seldom replies; “To hell with your standard”…It looks as if in fact very much as if both parties had in mind some kind of Law or rule of fair play or decemt behaviour or morality or whatever you like to call it, about which they really agreed.

Lewis is trying to say that we all have a standard value system by which we impose on ourselves naturally.  He is also implicitly saying the the Christian way is about  applying  standard values on other people as well as on ourselves. Lewis is rebuking the common idea of his time, that common human nature laws are subjective.

I also chose this comic because the point is so relavant to our world today although it was written 20 years ago. The comic strip highlights the current economic moral conflict we are going through as a society. We each expect certain wages and then some as a part of our “right” but we don’t apply that “right”  to others.