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What things exactly? Killing people? That is widely supported through ongoing wars, trade embargoes, abortion, and the death penalty. Rape? What we call rape i

by bugsy 16y ago

What things exactly? Killing people? That is widely supported through ongoing wars, trade embargoes, abortion, and the death penalty. Rape? What we call rape in many states in the USA, an 18 yr old having consensual sex with a 16 yr old, is accepted in other parts of the world. Or let's take Sweden's definition, having consensual sex without a condom. That's not against the law in most places. Pedophilia? Anthropologists claim found that it is common and accepted in Polynesia and other cultures. Cannibalism? Again, supposedly many cultures practice it and consider it an acceptable and beneficial practice. What exactly is universally reviled by human nature? Copraphilia? That's not illegal though.

derefr 16y ago
The most obvious case is property theft. Everyone feels some sort of base emotional sting when something that they have grown attached to is forcefully taken away from them. This can be generalized to conceptual belongings: pride, control, honor, dignity, etc. can also be "stolen" in various ways. The more serious immoral acts, however, of the kind that leave their subjects unable to emote (whether because they are dead, in a coma, "brainwashed", or whatever else) have to be analyzed from an in-group vs. out-group perspective. Given a "tribal unit", murder by outsiders of the tribe, to insiders in the tribe is universally reviled by tribe members. As we all (except sociopaths) mentally assign ourselves one or more tribes, this is generalizable back to all of humanity.
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- bugsy 16y ago
  People support taxes and welfare though. Taxation is theft plain and simple. So again, although some are opposed to the theft of taxation, not all are, and so it's not true there is universal revulsion for property theft. Also theft of even people's houses and land via eminent domain seizures, or of cars through police confiscations against the innocent are supported by some and not by others.

by bugsy 16y ago

derefr 16y ago

The most obvious case is property theft. Everyone feels some sort of base emotional sting when something that they have grown attached to is forcefully taken away from them. This can be generalized to conceptual belongings: pride, control, honor, dignity, etc. can also be "stolen" in various ways. The more serious immoral acts, however, of the kind that leave their subjects unable to emote (whether because they are dead, in a coma, "brainwashed", or whatever else) have to be analyzed from an in-group vs. out-group perspective. Given a "tribal unit", murder by outsiders of the tribe, to insiders in the tribe is universally reviled by tribe members. As we all (except sociopaths) mentally assign ourselves one or more tribes, this is generalizable back to all of humanity.

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bugsy 16y ago
People support taxes and welfare though. Taxation is theft plain and simple. So again, although some are opposed to the theft of taxation, not all are, and so it's not true there is universal revulsion for property theft. Also theft of even people's houses and land via eminent domain seizures, or of cars through police confiscations against the innocent are supported by some and not by others.