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minus-squareCatfish@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI didn’t recognise the name, and it sounds like I’d disagree with him in some ways, but that isn’t the point. You don’t burn shit you don’t like, it needs to be kept around so people can judge for themselves. Evil is as arbitrary as anything else. Descends soap box
minus-squareSeagoon_@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI don’t think there is anything arbitrary about the evil of slavery or pedophilia.
minus-squareCatfish@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoThere are cultures in which practices that could be termed those things are considered both necessary and right. Do I agree? No. My profession requires discarding personal perspectives as far as possible.
I didn’t recognise the name, and it sounds like I’d disagree with him in some ways, but that isn’t the point. You don’t burn shit you don’t like, it needs to be kept around so people can judge for themselves. Evil is as arbitrary as anything else.
Descends soap box
I don’t think there is anything arbitrary about the evil of slavery or pedophilia.
There are cultures in which practices that could be termed those things are considered both necessary and right.
Do I agree? No.
My profession requires discarding personal perspectives as far as possible.