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Why not? Some practices are totally abhorrent and have no place in any liberal society.
by MajesticHobo 11y ago
Why not? Some practices are totally abhorrent and have no place in any liberal society.
- JBReefer 11y agoThat's only if you consider the only societies of value to be "liberal"
- MajesticHobo 11y agoCall it what you want. IMO, any society that recognizes the problems with capital punishment and accordingly outlaws it has at least some liberal tendencies.
- Houstonymous 11y agoThat's a pretty cheap cop-out, using the tendencies of something to justify calling it that something.
- wtbob 11y agoSome might say that the practice of allowing brutal murderers and rapists to live out their lives and die in peace is totally abhorrent and has no place in any liberal society. It's almost as though different rational people of good will disagree about moral matters.
- MajesticHobo 11y agoA couple points: > the practice of allowing brutal murderers and rapists to live out their lives and die in peace Unless I'm misreading you, that's a huge misrepresentation of what death penalty abolitionists advocate. I don't want violent criminals to have zero repercussions for their actions, and no present-day society I've ever heard of allows them to. But I agree with (what I perceive to be your greater) point about differences in personal moral code. I was merely speaking contextually about the general trend Western society has followed for the past few centuries -- like fewer, more lenient punishments and more respect for civil rights, among others.
- Houstonymous 11y agoMaybe I wasn't talking about Western / liberal society. Maybe most people don't currently live in that.
- Houstonymous 11y agoAnd what makes you think most of the world currently lives in a liberal society?