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Like I said, I will concede this is abused as an excuse to do bad things, but that’s unrelated to the fact that actually doing something primarily because you t
by ironmagma 5y ago
Like I said, I will concede this is abused as an excuse to do bad things, but that’s unrelated to the fact that actually doing something primarily because you thought of the children is good.
If some murderer says they killed their victim out of love, the conclusion isn’t that love is a bad motivation for doing things. Or to say that in theory love is good, but in practice it’s bad.
- candiodari 5y agoOf course, my point here is mostly about the intentions. The intentions here are not to protect children, as that would make very, very little sense. I even abstract from both reasons of why the intent might be lacking. Are they outright evil? For example, are they using this as a deception to either push their own projects or even to sell real estate to these government efforts? Are lawmakers amoral? In the sense that they utterly don't care what they do, just how it'll be received. Or are they dumb/deluded? I imagine it's a combination of all 3 in reality. It's just that maybe some of the lawmakers involved are deluded about what this does, but that's the most charitable interpretation possible.