Culture
American culture has almost disappeared. This includes morals, the arts, and the way we behave towards each other in everyday life. Music and film have been almost destroyed, with artists preferring to make cynical, ugly works that deal with immorality and assume that anyone who doesn't identify with the lifestyles portrayed is abnormal. People do not treat each other according to their personal and individual characteristics anymore, but sacrifice feelings and morals to cold (and often irrational) professionalism.
Morality is scientifically, objectively determined. What is moral is that which doesn't harm a person, and what is immoral is what harms a person. It is immoral to expect one person to be harmed to help another. Therefore, it is wrong to force a child to share his toys, wrong to force an employer to pay his workers more, and wrong to tax some for the benefit of others. The only way to implicate this moral doctrine in real life is to adhere to the doctrine of individualism and capitalism.
The arts have excruciatingly suffered in the past 40 or 50 years because of purposely destructive artistic practices and standards, and government subsidies which encourage these practices and standards. Instead of portraying life as logical, understandable, and joyous, modern art seeks to lower humanity's pride. Paintings which purposely distort reality, not to innocently experiment, but to offend and destroy the eyes and mind; songs which seek, not to put together a catchy rhythm with beautiful music, but to deafen people and give them headaches, with lyrics that convey no philosophical point other than hatred of existing points; nauseating experimental films shot with unharmonious angles- formerly known by a properly disparaging phrase- “jump cuts”- become mainstream movies in which a muddled and morally offensive plot is unhappily married to sloppy camera work; books in which the story is about a nobody who is going nowhere- a pedophile drug addict whose viewpoint is supposed to be more interesting than that of an adventurer’s or hero’s. This is what modern art has become.
It is irrational to treat someone differently on a personal level according to their professional role, because:
A: There is, by definition, no way to deal with someone personally except by means of their personal attributes.
B: A person's professional attributes are a part of their professional persona. Therefore, they do not have anything to do with the personal persona, and literally cannot be used to connect with someone on a personal level. Meaning: if you do use professional attributes to judge whether or not you would connect with someone personally, you would be acting irrationally.
Example: It wouldn't make sense to refuse to befriend your boss for the reason of being your boss, because the fact that he is your boss would not necessarily mean that he would have certain personal qualities that were boss-like.