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I have done nothing of the sort, of course, which you know, but it's a common dishonest rhetorical tactic to suggest that mentioning two concepts in the same po
by wfo 10y ago
I have done nothing of the sort, of course, which you know, but it's a common dishonest rhetorical tactic to suggest that mentioning two concepts in the same post is automatically drawing an equivalence between them. I've made an argument that because something a president does is /allowed/ or /legal/ does not mean that it's morally acceptable. If you think everything that is legal but immoral is equivalent, that's on you, not me.
The fact that he's doing horribly immoral things and the defense is -30 days into his presidency already "it's legal therefore it's okay" is a very, very bad sign for the future of his administration, because as I've shown abiding by actions which are 'legal' means almost nothing when it comes to federal executive power. That moral sense which we are depending on which prevents a president from abusing their power is, by the evidence we've seen, not present in him.
- throwanem 10y ago> Each one is a disgusting, horrifying abuse of power. So is [...] How do you mean this to be taken if not to say that what he's done is as bad as all the other things you named? - that is, as a claim of moral equivalence.
- wfo 10y agoIt being disgusting and horrifying does NOT mean that it is the same as the holocaust or Japanese internment. It can still be disgusting and horrifying while simultaneously being less disgusting and horrifying than, say, genocide.