Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by killjoywashere on Sunday April 30, 2023 @02:00PM
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Do you want a moral society? Or a free society? One is the Handmaiden’s Tale, the other is Mogadishu.
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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by bastawhiz on Sunday April 30, 2023 @02:18PM
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The two are not mutually exclusive or opposites on a spectrum. You can have a society which is neither moral nor free. It is possible to have a society which is both more moral and more free than the one we have.
Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by confoundcofound on Sunday April 30, 2023 @02:16PM
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This is a false dichotomy. The very concept of freedom is based on a moral philosophy.
Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by wahnfrieden on Sunday April 30, 2023 @02:48PM
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There is a materialist sense of it too
Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by dmbche on Sunday April 30, 2023 @04:30PM
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Hey, I'm a little baffled by your mention of Mogadishu...what are you refering?
- for reference, the battle of mogadishu is the Black hawk down incident, and Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia.
Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by throwaway27391 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @04:56PM
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I don't think handmaiden’s tale was a moral society. Hanging women on walls and raping them doesn't seem very moral. Oppression through purity propaganda more descriptive. A moral society wouldn't be oppressive and murderous.
Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ...
by kelnos on Sunday April 30, 2023 @07:52PM
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It depends on how you define "moral", I guess. The people in power in that story believed themselves to be following the highest moral code of them all. You and I would of course disagree with their morals, but I think that's just evidence that "moral code" is an invented thing, and is something people agree on, not an absolute truth.