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> You’d have to argue that any behavior is a crime in order for it to be legitimate for perpetrators to suffer consequences. Okay, but there was a time when h
by KMag 6y ago
> You’d have to argue that any behavior is a crime in order for it to be legitimate for perpetrators to suffer consequences.
Okay, but there was a time when homosexuality was a crime in the majority of Western countries, and in some places around the world, it still is a crime. What then/there?
Moral reasoning based on current law is partially circular reasoning, and also tends to ossify current law/state of moral progress.
- jancsika 6y ago> Okay, but there was a time when homosexuality was a crime in the majority of Western countries, and in some places around the world, it still is a crime. What then/there? One easy place to start-- are the laws are based on kinds of dubious claims that our own social and scientific history has rejected? And at least in Africa, Western evangelicals have spent a lot of time and effort exporting their same stupid ideas about homosexuality. So our Western approaches should be pretty easy to copy-paste there. :)