Silicon Valley’s Safe Space

Re:Silicon Valley’s Safe Space by DenisM on Saturday February 13, 2021 @02:40PM (#26126090)

>>What should society do when an an argument is factually correct but leads to an immoral result?

>Choose a moral alternative.

Are you saying that facts should be suppressed/set aside when they lead to immoral results? I can't assign any other meaning to your words.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Safe Space by krapp on Saturday February 13, 2021 @03:09PM (#26126338)

>Are you saying that facts should be suppressed/set aside when they lead to immoral results?

I'm saying facts have no moral or immoral dimension - "immoral results" come from choices made in the interpretation of fact, choices which are relative and mutable because morality is an abstraction. There is no case where an immoral choice is made where a moral choice could not also be made.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Safe Space by rhizome on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:01PM (#26137117)

Or: morality is a set of value judgements about facts (or not, as the case may be).

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Safe Space by DenisM on Saturday February 13, 2021 @04:32PM (#26127140)

That makes sense, thanks for clarifying.

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