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SomeMichGuy · M
It depends upon what drives the amoral man.
He can still have hungers / desires / appetites which he desires to sate.
So, if seeming to be moral or pandering to the moral will help him, I would assume that he might make a big show of seeming to be moral, even conservatively so; appearing with a sacred text as a photo op might be an example.
Of course, violating basic precepts of the morality which he invokes ought to clue in those claiming to follow said code that he is actually NOT moral in the positive sense. However, that crucially depends upon whether or not the moral have read said sacred text, or understand it, or if their grasp of the subject is poor or influenced by (say) false teachers who have misrepresented the text for decades, then the amoral man might well hoodwink the self-labeled "moral" even as he does the same...
And if the hoodwinker says what the hoodwinked WANT to hear...well, I'm not sure there are any ready analogues in this modern world of educated persons; it seems like such an absurd, theoretical question.
Ah, the questions we ponder 'pon a Winter's day!
He can still have hungers / desires / appetites which he desires to sate.
So, if seeming to be moral or pandering to the moral will help him, I would assume that he might make a big show of seeming to be moral, even conservatively so; appearing with a sacred text as a photo op might be an example.
Of course, violating basic precepts of the morality which he invokes ought to clue in those claiming to follow said code that he is actually NOT moral in the positive sense. However, that crucially depends upon whether or not the moral have read said sacred text, or understand it, or if their grasp of the subject is poor or influenced by (say) false teachers who have misrepresented the text for decades, then the amoral man might well hoodwink the self-labeled "moral" even as he does the same...
And if the hoodwinker says what the hoodwinked WANT to hear...well, I'm not sure there are any ready analogues in this modern world of educated persons; it seems like such an absurd, theoretical question.
Ah, the questions we ponder 'pon a Winter's day!