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If a choice is not contrary to your desire or other self interest, there is no ethical dimension.

• altairprime 5mo ago
  Only if your society has no ethical opinions that its members are expected and/or compelled to attend to — and if you voluntarily choose to exclude non-compulsory societal impacts from your own ethical considerations. While I shouldn’t comment on your personal choices to opt out of social ethics as a sociopath with a very nice glass house and no desire to throw rocks, I’m still curious: Is your local governing body one such ethically-exempted ‘every person defines their own ethics and others have no say whatsoever’ society? They’re quite rare and I’d love to know more if so!
  • brudgers 5mo ago
    If a person is compelled, they are not making a choice against their desire or other self-interest and therefore there is no ethical dimension to the act.
    • altairprime 5mo ago
      Consider that people often receive pleasure for, and a subset of those actively desire to be a member of a society; and that quite a lot of them desire to abrogate personal ethics in favor of societal ethics. I’m not one of them, so it’s really creepy to me, but unfortunately it’s still a thing. I imagine it doesn’t apply to you either? People usually aren’t capable of adopting the ethical model you describe because they are wired for societal joy and it feels wrong to oppose that so uncaringly.