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You don’t have to be a puritan to find pimps distasteful, even if they are cyber. Edit: Child evidently has a reading comprehension problem and didn't understa
by User23 3y ago
You don’t have to be a puritan to find pimps distasteful, even if they are cyber.
Edit: Child evidently has a reading comprehension problem and didn't understand "don't have to be a puritan." The emphasis is on cyberpimps. Whether or not you approve of pornography or prostitution you can still find pimps, who are by nature exploitative, distasteful without being a puritan.
- Retric 3y agoPuritan is defined as finding porn etc distasteful, so it really is. one who practices or preaches a more rigorous or professedly purer moral code than that which prevails https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puritan https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puritan It’s the objection itself not the reason for it that’s important. In other words objecting to porn on artistic grounds is still puritan.
- broken-kebab 3y agoReason is very obviously hardcoded into the definition with "moral" word. Ergo, >objecting to porn on artistic grounds is still puritan. is not true
- Retric 3y agoValuing “good” art is a moral stance. It’s a judgment of what human behavior is good or bad.
- broken-kebab 3y agoIt's moral stance if you define good as moral. In other words, your reasoning is a circular reference, and not very useful
- Retric 3y agoDifferent definitions of the word good here. Someone who values “plucky” art is making a moral judgement in the same way someone who thinks it should be destroyed, preserved, created, or … It’s defining something as positive or negative which makes this a moral judgement not the specific value assigned. I use positive/negative here because someone may believe there’s an incorrect solution to a math problem without judging such errors in terms of morality.
- User23 3y agoI don’t think that word means what you think it means in the context it’s being used. In this case a moral judgment simply means with respect to ethics. One could morally judge something to be good, bad, or neutral.