Never judge a philosophy by its abuse

[Salacious B. Crumb]

If the philosophy only contains what most of us would assess to be good , then there is a much lesser probability to misapply the philosophy, without dishonestly using it to justify yourself. If your philosophy goes by something like the bible, then obviously it can be abused to no end. The bible is contradictory, and I wouldn’t attach the word philosophy to something like that. You can patently abuse the bible, because it teaches, what most of us would consider, highly immoral behavior, along with moral behavior. So, that’s a philosophy that is easily abused. If a philosophy necessitates only something like: treat others with genuine kindness, then, that is something that is less likely to be abused. However, something like kindness, caring, etc can be manipulated to have subjective meanings. Even ideas, such as the golden rule, can be exploited in fraudulent types of ways to people that I would deem to be sick or immoral.

A more concrete example would be: rape is wrong, and one should ever do it under any circumstance.

There still may be lingering stipulations in some people’s minds what rape is, but that would be a philosophy that would be difficult to abuse. If we defined rape in every aspect imaginable, everyone agreed on it, then you couldn't abuse that.

Also, abusing something like the bible would be completely subjective, because what is abuse to someone, isn't to someone else. Hypocrisy, also comes into play when talking about a subject like this. Some people will vindicate genocide in the bible (they don't think they are abusing the bible, others would disagree), but when Hitler does it, it's completely wrong.

Almost anything can be abused, unless it's scrupulously defined.