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Consent is not a magic wand that makes all actions moral. And yes, brokeness will be with us for all time. So, your solution is to just allow things to get wo
by yters 9y ago
Consent is not a magic wand that makes all actions moral.
And yes, brokeness will be with us for all time. So, your solution is to just allow things to get worse? Sometimes you have to take a hard stand on things to help people not destroy themselves.
- esarbe 9y agoIt's not as if there were any absolute moral values. And if everybody involved can give informed consent, why should that not be enough?
- ihsw2 9y agoSelf-control and empathy are absolute moral values, there are many but these two form the core of the civilizing process. A society where these two are absent is a society of anarchy and self-destruction. To imply that all social norms and taboos are moot in the face of individuality is to imply that the individual is the core atom of humanity and it clearly is not -- it is the family.
- esarbe 9y agoSelf-control and empathy are very useful moral values if you want to have a stable and peaceful society. I agree that they are 'good' moral values. That doesn't make them absolute.
- yters 9y agoThere are clearly objective moral values. A society that denigrates sex to entertainment and cannot reproduce will cease to exist.
- esarbe 9y agoMoral values only exist in a societal context. We as a society decide what is moral and what is not. As for sex as entertainment; yes, sexual intercourse in all its wonderful varieties is entertainment. Just look at some of our closest cousins, the Bonobos. They entertain themselves all day long with sex. Well, almost. I really don't get why you think that sex is something bad. I think it's wonderful and we should have much more of it. - it's just way better entertainment then war.