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> Please don’t steal things from other peoples houses. That is how the country is run. You can, if you so wish, steal from peoples houses with impunity. The c
by mjburgess 3y ago
> Please don’t steal things from other peoples houses.
That is how the country is run.
You can, if you so wish, steal from peoples houses with impunity. The crime will very rarely be investigated, you're unlikely to be caught, etc.
This system of black/white rules that you perceive exists, does not. This misperception lies at the origin of what's trigged your impulse to imagine some threat (which then triggers compassion).
Rather social reality comprises a series of negotiations whose moral content lies in how that delicate interaction takes place. Reducing this down to a chessboard-like system with presumed violent enforcement is itself immoral. It deprives people from living in this negotiated space where morality can take place.
- Podgajski 3y agoSo now you wouldn’t call the place if you saw someone breaking into someone else’s house? Would you even call your neighbor? Would you do anything yourself? Gather gang of people together and go over there? But then you would be the police wouldn’t you?
- mjburgess 3y agoAs ever, it would be a case-by-case basis. I do not reason from the abstract to the particular, which i find generally immoral. Rather I consider the particular in all its details. In general, someone breaking into a house is a present dangerous and serious threat. On that basis I would call the police, etc. If someone opened the door, saw a mobile, grabbed it and ran off -- then i'd maybe leave a note with the neighbor