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I’ve heard this before and I keep hearing it. Maybe I don’t understand it fully but I just can’t see how what we have now is different from the days of old. Do

• wat10000 2y ago
  It's definitely true for certain things. To consider a relevant example, it wasn't too long ago that homosexuality was broadly considered to be immoral. Now there's strong disagreement over this. Of course, for this particular example this is actually a good thing. It would be even better if there was broad agreement that homosexuality wasn't immoral, but having a substantial number of people on that side is better than having almost none. I think the other comment misattributes the problem. The problem isn't the loss of the old broadly shared morality, the problem is that we haven't yet managed to coalesce around a new and better one.
  • amazingamazing 2y ago
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    • wat10000 2y ago
      "Leaking"? My bias against homophobes and for treating people the same regardless of sexual preference is being loudly advertised, it's not "leaking." Yeah, no shit that plenty of countries have horrible views here. Why are you acting like you think I'm unaware of this?
      • amazingamazing 2y ago
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        • ForHackernews 2y ago
          I think you're misapplying "irony". The comment you're responding to doesn't argue for some kind of wishy-washy moral equivalence: they're explicitly advocating for the superiority of their preferred values. Nothing you've offered is an effective rebuttal to their assertion that having 50% "good people" is preferable to 0% "good people" (in the interest of unity).