Does Fear keep you from doing Right?

Wasted Honor -

Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

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Monday, May 18, 2015

Does Fear keep you from doing Right?

Does Fear keep you from doing Right?

Is fear the true essence of morality?

Understanding the Ten Commandments is a risky business. If you understand this doctrine then you know there are consequences for your sins. However, you only understand the doctrine to be true if you believe them to be fact, hence you are relying on the truth.

Are these Commandments an absolute and is the true sense of morality hinge on them to intrinsically right or absolute and do you believe this with a degree of certainty? Get the picture as you doubt what the truth is and what certainty is. Perhaps there is no absolute in believing in the Commandments.

I believe the reason we try so hard to understand these Commandments is because of fear. Fear that if they are absolute, you may suffer dire consequences on Judgment Day. Is that a logical position to take or am I off base with my logical deduction that I believe because I fear to be wrong?

Am I motivated by self-gratification or selfish greed to go to heaven if I promise to follow the Commandments? Am I motivated to submit to the fact that the Commandments are absolute so I may receive what is a promised reward by going to heaven?

How does that impact my own morality and integrity with God or with myself? Am I cheating myself by lying to myself? Is morality for those who believe and not for those who don’t believe in the Commandments? Do I have to have religion to have access to morality and if that is so, is morality limited to only the believers?

Going deeper into the morality issue, do I have to be a Christian or can I be a Jew, a Muslim or Hindu to believe I am following these Commandments because I believe them to be the truth? Deeper yet, do I have to be a Christian to be on high moral ground or does it maintain balance and truth for other religions as well?

Am I moral because I feel I have to be and if I have to be, am I moral? Does believing make me more moral than others and how does that impact my own life believing what others don’t.

Logic tells me if I don’t have to believe then I am not moral and in essence my morality is based on my fear that something may happen if I don’t believe in the Commandments which are said to be the truth.

How can I be moral is my actions are self-serving? What do I gain for believing just to believe? I cannot be moral if there is nothing to gain and nothing to fear for being that way. Do I need to gain to be moral and isn’t that a violation of the Commandments.

So I wonder and ponder an ethical dilemma in my heart. To believe or not believe in the Commandments and all the other scriptures written and said to be the truth. Should I agree that the essence of morality is doing something that is right regardless of the collateral damage to myself?

Is the essence of morality doing right regardless that I am seeking a self-reward? Thus the essence of morality is based on your decision to decide which way to choose your life and ultimately, either be dependent on the words you believe to be the truth or independently gather the courage to decide and choose what you believe is right or moral without fear. Either way, whichever you choose without fear must be the right thing to do and creates your morality.

How true is this?