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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by throwaway27391 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @04:56PM (#35766552)
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.
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Re:Whistleblowers are the conscience of society, yet suffer ... by kelnos on Sunday April 30, 2023 @07:52PM (#35767644)
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.
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