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Can we stop having moral judgements as comments on HN and acknowledge everyone has their own morality. The stock market could dip for a number of reasons. I don
by poiuyjkmj 5y ago
Can we stop having moral judgements as comments on HN and acknowledge everyone has their own morality. The stock market could dip for a number of reasons. I don't particularly think its helpful trying to point out every time someone violates your personal moral lines e.g. don't buy stock when the market crashes for reason x, don't buy stock y etc.
Besides, this interpretation of the ops comment was different for me, if the virus is less deadly and people shouldn't panic sell, fewer people die and loose money, don't they.
- wussboy 5y agoI think constant moral judgment can have a chilling effect. But to throw it out altogether is not the solution (it’s certainly not working at 4chan). Claiming that everyone has their own morality is only true in the sense that no two snowflakes are alike. It may be correct at the molecular level, but snowflakes are more similar than they are different. So too with human morality. Mine may be slightly different than yours, but the overlap is huge and consistent. I think perhaps more importantly (and the reason I made the comment in the first place), morality is contextual and easily influenced. If we never talk about it, no one knows what sorts of behaviours are appropriate. So I talked about it to put a peg in the ground. You may disagree and that’s fine. You drive your peg in to the ground somewhere else. But knowing there are two pegs is important.