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But your example is begging the question. If you frame killing a human being as murder, you've already decided that it's unjust or unlawful. How about the death
by tremon 9y ago
But your example is begging the question. If you frame killing a human being as murder, you've already decided that it's unjust or unlawful. How about the death penalty, euthanasia, extrajudicial execution, war, honour killing or jihad/crusade? In all those cases, the killing party believes their actions are fully justified.
- humanrebar 9y agoNobody argues that there is no such thing as murder. It's not begging the question just because people don't agree about edge cases.
- gnode 9y agoYou're right; I don't think anyone here is arguing murder isn't real. The argument is that murder is not an objective truth, but rather a subjective truth. This doesn't mean we shouldn't care about murder, just that murder is a conceptual reality.
- michaelt 9y agoIsn't that just a tautology, though? I mean, if someone says "No moral viewpoints are more or less true than others; a person acts ethically as long as they think their actions are fully justified" and "People only do things they think are fully justified" then immoral action is impossible.