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Long ago, way back in high school philosophy I wrote a paper arguing against the monarchy (I'm in Canada) on the grounds that raising a child born into that pos
by retrac 5y ago
Long ago, way back in high school philosophy I wrote a paper arguing against the monarchy (I'm in Canada) on the grounds that raising a child born into that position with no life choices is a form of child abuse. I was a bit tongue-in-cheek at the time. But I still haven't encountered any decent counterargument.
- pasabagi 5y agoI think the counterargument is basically that trying to apply ethics to the royal family is like trying to apply orbital dynamics to a whale. Everything about how the whale lives and looks references its formative environment, and I guess you could put it in a rocket and see how it works as a satellite, but it would probably just turn red, bloat, then explode into a cloud of gore.