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Arguably expecting them to make decisions in these matters gives them even more disproportionate influence. People should be holding people coming up with the a
by loa_in_ 4y ago
Arguably expecting them to make decisions in these matters gives them even more disproportionate influence. People should be holding people coming up with the ads accountable according to more fundamental societal frameworks, like courts of law or some kind of societal moral court
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThis is a power they have regardless of expectations. The thing that makes them culpable is what they did (or did not do), and how it affected the world.
- xupybd 4y agoThey're choosing not to swing the balance. If they interfere in any direction there will be a significant portion of society that finds the direction they pick to be evil.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoTurning a blind eye like that doesn't actually liberate them from complicity. Inaction can very much be action within a moral context.
- elcomet 4y agoNot acting is a choice, and it can swing the balance as much as acting.
- loa_in_ 4y agoBut not acting is the only choice that allows someone else to make the... choice. And that's the crux, it's not their business to judge people, it's (greater) society's business.
- elcomet 4y agoIs it really? Do women who see those anti-abortion clinic ads have the choice to see them? They don't really, at least not an informed choice.