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Re:Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019) by weswpg on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:41PM (#25595622)
> In fact most of it we'd probably see as repressive now, but that's a different discussion.

I think it's the same discussion. We've lost our sense of community because community is somewhat repressive and we prefer individualism.

The tradeoff between social obligation and individual freedom might not be possible to balance and we might just have to choose one way or the other.

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Re:Shamelessness as a Strategy (2019) by marcus_holmes on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:45PM (#25595665)
I saw it as a different discussion because the "what is a person's duty?" is a different question than "does a person have a duty?".

But you might be right, the evolution of morals that we've seen in the last 75 years might have killed the concept of Duty as a byproduct - because we no longer accept the same things as our Duty, nothing replaced them and the whole concept died.

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