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Morality without Absolute Morality
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zippy2006
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@Bradskii, the "reasoning" you are resorting to is an embarrassment to humankind:
Your sophistry could be applied to anything:
- Interlocutor: I am a moral absolutist because I think rape is always wrong.
- Bradskii: No you're not, because you don't think consensual rape is wrong.
- Interlocutor: I am a moral absolutist because I think murder is always wrong.
- Bradskii: No you're not, because you don't think murdering a peach is wrong.
- Interlocutor: I am a moral absolutist because I think the Holocaust is always wrong.
- Bradskii: No you're not, because you don't think a Holocaust where no one dies or is harmed is wrong.
- Interlocutor: I am a moral absolutist because I think slavery is always wrong.
- Bradskii: No you're not, because you don't think voluntary and temporary slavery for predetermined wages is wrong.
This is the level of sophistry that is always present in your "posts."
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Bradskii
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...will be exhibited when you finish this statement:
'The definition of rape is...'
Look, I know you don't want to do it. But it's a ridiculously easy ask. You've brought up rape so I want you to define it.
There are 2 reasons why a person won't answer a question. One is because they don't know what the answer is. The other is that they don't like what the answer reveals. And every refusal emphasises that fact.
And I'll ask you yet again. Don't attribute words to me that misrepresent my position.
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"to force someone to have sex when they are unwilling, using violence or threatening behavior" (Cambridge Dictionary).
Now go ask a third grader, and they will explain to you why that definition does not entail that rape is not wrong in every context. "Rape excludes consent," does not mean that there must be some context in which rape is morally right.
You're on ignore. You are a shame to the human race.
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Ah, so the term includes the context. Thank you for confirming that. Good to finish on that note.
Because I think that rape is wrong? How very odd.
A good idea. I can't honestly say that you were doing very well in that little tete-a-tete. But I'm sure that your mileage will vary...
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I thought that was your thing.
Who else's ideas would there be but us apes?
So you claim.
This is precisely the thing I deny. Can you prove this claim or is this just an assertion?
No one. That is the point.
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