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Wow, taking care of your parents goes in the same moral bucket as raping kids
by yCombLinks 4y ago
Wow, taking care of your parents goes in the same moral bucket as raping kids
- emodendroket 4y agoNo, it doesn’t. It’s just an example that clearly demonstrates how meritless “this is OK because it was common in the past” is as an argument.
- harvey9 4y agoThe more charitable take is they just meant norms change.
- yCombLinks 4y agoThen he shouldn't have been rude, condescending, and intentionally inflammatory. If he wants to behave poorly he should expect to be treated the same.
- emodendroket 4y agoIf you propose some kind of moral axiom and we can use it to “prove” the morality of some extreme things we all agree are immoral then that means the axiom is not true. Nobody is being rude by using that logic.
- Femolio 4y agoI only made the original argument invalid by providing easy examples.