Re:E Pur Si Muove
by alien_at_work on Friday December 15, 2017 @04:24AM
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At the very least we need to consider the culture. In our culture there are things where we consider them unambigously immoral and anyone engaging in them or even defending them is as well. But we have other things that are at least controversial to most people (e.g. eating animals). In the latter case, I find it perfectly fine to argue against it, even passionately so. But it's absolutely not ok to demonize or ostracise people for it. I feel like, as a society, we knew this until recently. At least most of us did.
Everyone is going to have some threshold where they think 'an act that is this immoral means the person doing the action is also immoral', where actions that are below that threshold are treated as 'this action is unethical, but the person doing it could still be good'
Most people think someone who murders is a bad person (the act is immoral, and the person doing it is immoral). However, as the we move down the line, EVERYONE has to 'make the call' as to where the action becomes something that doesn't immediately make the person doing the action immoral. It isn't wrong that we have to make that call, it is the only way.