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-Quick, snarky question: Would you feel as relaxed about the occasional loss of innocent life if the operations were carried out in your own neighbourhood?
by lb1lf 9y ago
-Quick, snarky question: Would you feel as relaxed about the occasional loss of innocent life if the operations were carried out in your own neighbourhood?
- golergka 9y agoPersonal ethics and society ethics don't always match up and don't have to. Society ethics should be utilitarian, optimizing general welfare from a third person, objective point of view. Personal ethics is inherently subjective and tied to your personal point of view. Personally, I (and most people) support systems of societal ethics (such as governments) because they work for me most of the time. Not necessarily always.
- mmjaa 9y agoMorals are personal. Ethics, social. There is no such thing as 'society ethics'. In this case, the ethics of one group allows it to destroy the civilisation of the other group, whose ethics are not aligned well enough to the original, more powerful group.