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> Do _you_ want to be on the side that argues that our modern interpretations of age of consent may be a fad I mean it is a fad just a centuries old one. My o
by Ygg2 4y ago
> Do _you_ want to be on the side that argues that our modern interpretations of age of consent may be a fad
I mean it is a fad just a centuries old one.
My opinion is that morality is essentially a tips and trick of how to survive passed in a game of generational telephone.
E.g. ancient Greek hated cannibalism but practiced pederasty. Cannibalism can lead to catching prions and going crazy. For them it was god's punishment. Pederasty probably didn't have as many negative side effects at that time.
Proclaiming superiority over our predecessors is short lived. Imagine if there were two races of butterflies, one gray one white. The white blend better on trees and thus survive more, so white butterflies start arguing they are morally superior (favorite of God, etc.) to the gray ones, but that quickly changes once pollution grays the trees making now white butterflies the more visible prey.
- DeathArrow 4y agoImmanuel Kant had the idea of a supreme morality test. All things done by an individual which extended to all individuals would mean human kind extinction are imoral. All the rest are not imoral. So killing, cannibalism and pederasty are obviously imoral.
- Ygg2 4y agoI understand cannibalism and killing, but how exactly would pederasty applied to everything lead to human extinction? Die-off from lack of breeding? Sexually transmissible diseases? In both cases you could also construct homosexuality as immoral
- mecha_ghidorah 4y ago> So killing, cannibalism and pederasty are obviously imomral. Actually cannibalism is just eating of people, there is no requirement that said people get butchered for it. Someone might ritualistically eat an elder in their community to gain part of their wisdom for example, but there is not a requirement that they slay that elder first - they may just wait for them to die