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Did you just claim slavery is good?!?! There are no cases where slavery is good, regardless of who does it or who it's done to. The same goes for genocide, mur

Did you just claim slavery is good?!?! There are no cases where slavery is good, regardless of who does it or who it's done to. The same goes for genocide, murder, robbery and so on. The ethic of reciprocity asks you to accept that "X harms Y" is the same as "Y harms X", while the totalitarian propaganda satirised in 1984 asks you to think of "them" and "us" and justifies immorality by claimimg it will benefit "us" and/or harm "them". The same theme ran through Animal Farm as well ("some animals are more equal than others"). It's still say it's doublethink to want to apply surveillance to some group of people but not others.

sorcerer-mar 1y ago
> There are no cases where slavery is good, regardless of who does it or who it's done to. The same goes for genocide, murder, robbery and so on. Have you heard of prisons? We use a different word for it so as to not introduce the (obviously false) semantic "contradiction". Perhaps if you want to say that forced labor is bad even after conviction, then let's say "kidnapping is bad when done by bad people, kidnapping is good when done by good people [to bad people]". Ta-da, you've invented prison.