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What actions would you say you can’t justify with that rhetoric?

• AdamN 4y ago
  All of it. If somebody does something that is judged bad, the circumstances of doing the bad thing is a relevant factor in the justification (which is not binary). So if I tip 10% and somebody judges me and says "that's bad" I might not have any mitigating factors (maximum badness) or I can have some which could make it less bad to the person judging me. Maybe I only had enough money in my wallet for 10% or I needed to save money for something specific that is of higher ethical value or I usually tip that person 20% when I have my corporate card, etc... In the case of Biden, his badness ("bad" because I'm pro-worker safety/rights) is less than Trump's because he wanted to defend the union but didn't want to make the economy suffer in order to do it and he didn't have enough political power to do more without losing other things vs Trump who went as hard anti-union as he could get away with.
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