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Re:Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. by throw0101c on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:59PM (#48187958)
> I'd say that deliberately increasing the suffering of others is bad, especially if it increases the total amount of suffering in the world, but that too is a subjective value judgement.

Invoking Godwin's law: what the Nazis did was not objectively "bad", but simply something you do not agree with.

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Re:Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:49AM (#48193284)
To a conservative, yep! Conservative morality is inherently relativist, those who do not share their world view deserve punishment, and our suffering makes the world better.
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Re:Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. by throw0101c on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @11:29AM (#48194634)
> Conservative morality is inherently relativist […]

What? Left-leaning folks are stereotypically more secular and less likely to believe in the supernatural, so as materialists would have less of a foundation for any kind of "objective" morality.

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Re:Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:27PM (#48198197)
A core idea of the conservative state is that there are some chosen people, whether due to their might, wealth, ethnicity, a "god", or something similar, and that the state should protect & serve the chosen people. Those who are not the chosen are bad, and should be exploited to serve the chosen.
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