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Re:Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targetin... by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @07:50AM (#20745809)
Moral questions require empathy. If you have no empathy, moral questions only interest you to the extent that they imply potential benefits for you.
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Re:Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targetin... by lagadu on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:18AM (#20746032)
Plus morality is highly subjective and beliefs on what is moral varies by individual.
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Re:Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targetin... by PavlovsCat on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:06AM (#20747182)
Lacking empathy is a defect of the mind I would say, and clarity refers to the whole of it, just like health refers to all of it. A person who has healthy fingernails but has cancer isn't healthy, and a person that excels at specific technial problems, but isn't even bad, but completely absent, when it comes to other very basic ones, isn't brilliant.

> morality is highly subjective

And the word "brilliant" is not? "Highly" is just padding: Morality is subjective, and so is everything else, ultimately. It's not a magically different kind of thing to think about, it's just one of the more basic ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_reasoning

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