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> I don't see how morality comes into it when it's a choice made by adults It's not black and white. Morality is a continuum of cause and effect. Shooting som
by BobbyJo 3y ago
> I don't see how morality comes into it when it's a choice made by adults
It's not black and white. Morality is a continuum of cause and effect.
Shooting someone is bad. Shooting bullets recklessly and accidentally hitting someone is bad, but less so. Shooting a bunch of bullets safely but leaving the lead in the ground to leach into a neighboring properties well is bad, but lesser still. Etc.
There are moral consequences to literally everything you do, it's just a matter of each individual's threshold for caring, and the social contract formed when people become part of a group. Some people care about the first and second order effects of smoking (increased burden on healthcare, land use competition, agricultural pollution, microplastic pollution, etc.) and some don't.