Abolition of Man...

C.S. Lewis writes that if the standard of law or the way, the dao, is destroyed or on trial, then the only standard that will survive is pleasure.  A group of guardians will decide what is good or bad for man, not on any standard above them that they also must follow, but on pleasure alone. We also will not be able to place value judgements like, "Bad", or "corrupt", etc upon them as these are value judgements and cannot be applied since there is not objective law, way, dao, or truth that will define these terms. It will simply be "Thus I will, thus I command... sic volo sic jubeo. The law of God is on trial and something else has to take its place. And that something else is the new standard imposed by those who feel it is best for us. Now presently, we see the debates about morality as a popular belief debate, vote of the masses. So then what standard dictates what is good besides popular beliefs or appeal to the masses? Moral relativism? Decide what is good from a person to person perspective: your truth is not my truth, and my truth is not your truth. Have we all become little gods without earning that right? Judges of right or wrong within ourselves and for ourselves? Was Eden the attempt for men to become god-like with proper striving and delay of self-gratification? If man had attained Christ-like virtue and become god-like, then would God have shown the knowledge of good and evil to them and they, by grace and virtue, would have rejected it as nothing? C.S. Lewis says that traditions were passed down to teachers who also followed those traditions and taught them not as above the traditions but below them. So they kept these standards and taught them as well. Now when the traditions are on trial, what is the source of objective truth to judge our acts? What then replaces these things? It can only be man and his pleasure principle. What is good for one man may not be good for another. The pleasures of some are not the pleasures of others. Who will decide? Since we cannot judge one pleasure over another as that is a "value" judgment and we have passed that stage, we must then be motivated by the strength of the pleasure or passion; its emotional content or weight will decide. The impulse and its persistent nature must rule.