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I don't care what society thinks I have my own moral compass that is partly my own and partly shaped by society. I do my best to shape society to my truth and d

I don't care what society thinks I have my own moral compass that is partly my own and partly shaped by society. I do my best to shape society to my truth and don't care what "the majority" or "the minority" thinks. You make many claims about "society" and what would work or wouldn't. But these are just assumptions. I like experiments. My question remains why is it relevant that a minority asks for the removal of something. 100 years ago slave owners said society would collapse without slaves and that black people were too stupid to do more that physical work. A minority of people from "society" objected to this at first. And slowly the old truths were replaced by new ones. This is happening now as well. You presume many things but you are not talking about the justness or inherent truths. I ask you: Why shouldn't we let books that are implicitly discriminatory fade into obscurity?

brabel 6y ago
> I don't care what society thinks... Oh my... I suppose you're writing this from prison as if you don't care about what society thinks you certainly must disagree with many laws of that society... This is a really childish argument and thinking there's an absolute truth is an obvious sign of your lack of understanding of what humanity even means. There is no absolute truth. Nothing has inherent value, not even life. We only give value to life (and really different values depending on what type of life we're talking about) because we have an obvious interest in keeping our species alive, but this is not inherently good, or an absolute truth in any way. You now come up with an argument that's drowning in your own culture and the very recent past of your own society and you don't even realize that, thinking there's some kind of absolute truth behind your position. There isn't. You're so deep into your society mindset you're compleetely incapable of thinking outside of that. You seem to be trying to refer to Sam Harris' Moral Landscape without actually understanding at all what he means.

brabel 6y ago

> I don't care what society thinks... Oh my... I suppose you're writing this from prison as if you don't care about what society thinks you certainly must disagree with many laws of that society... This is a really childish argument and thinking there's an absolute truth is an obvious sign of your lack of understanding of what humanity even means. There is no absolute truth. Nothing has inherent value, not even life. We only give value to life (and really different values depending on what type of life we're talking about) because we have an obvious interest in keeping our species alive, but this is not inherently good, or an absolute truth in any way. You now come up with an argument that's drowning in your own culture and the very recent past of your own society and you don't even realize that, thinking there's some kind of absolute truth behind your position. There isn't. You're so deep into your society mindset you're compleetely incapable of thinking outside of that. You seem to be trying to refer to Sam Harris' Moral Landscape without actually understanding at all what he means.