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> On most cases the world is grey, No, the world only _looks_ grey. In a given situation there really is a right thing to do, and wrong thing. The details ma
by wnoise 16y ago
> On most cases the world is grey,
No, the world only _looks_ grey. In a given situation there really is a right thing to do, and wrong thing. The details matter immensely, however, causing white and black to be right next to each other, and intermixed thoroughly. This leaves it very hard to tell what is the right thing to do, leading to moral dithering and apparently grey morality.
(I'm not really being serious. But I'm also not really being entirely unserious.)
- wnoise 16y agoHuh. I wonder what about this provoked the downvotes (net 2 at this point). I'm actually curious, not just trying to whine about karma, and would like to hear about people's moral intuition that clash with mine. It really is my experience that small details about a situation can turn my opinion of an action from totally justified to totally unjustified, or vice-versa. I wouldn't have expected it to be controversial that details can matter greatly, making judging many situations quite difficult either looking from the supposedly objective outside, or from the definitely subjective people on one side or another.