BriDads Stop Getting Offended
01/30/19 8:14 pm
The main concept many don’t understand is that we can’t judge these past people by today’s standards. We have developed over hundreds of years from a colony of inexperienced men and women. Yes, people back in the 1800s had slaves, but so did many other countries. But the main point I’m trying to get across is that, historically, Americans were naive and misinformed about human rights because they hadn’t been exposed to Africans, so they didn’t know better. A lot of fucked up events have taken place throughout history, however, it hasn’t been so long since slavery has been abolished (less than 200 years). And it’s a part of our history that we isn’t looked highly upon but has helped us to learn our morals for equality and develop as a unified nation.
Here’s an example: after realizing smoking is bad for our health, it is now looked down upon in society but up to the late 1900s it was done everywhere (movies, tv, in restaurants, etc) but we just were misinformed and didn’t know better.
DoctorWasdarb Marxist Leninist Maoist
01/30/19 7:15 pm
I certainly reject the left picture. That bullshit is used to whitewash colonialism and slavery. If forced to choose between objective and subjective morality, I will choose objective over subjective, with the important qualification that while morality may be objective, that is not to say it is absolute. I reject absolute morality. The importance of the nuance is to say that it is possible to determine right and wrong, but that right and wrong cannot be determined abstractly through vague appeals to moral principles, but must be rooted in material conditions, and in one set of conditions, and action may be found to be moral whereas in another set, the same action may be found to be immoral. Drugs, theft, these can have different social consequences dependent upon the conditions in which they exist, and thus different moral values.
LeftLibertarian The Age of Outrage
01/30/19 6:30 pm
The purpose of this poll is two fold, firstly to allow people to choose between the two, and also to bring attention to two positions of morality that appear to be accepted by a majority of people (not necessarily the same majority, but there almost certainly has to be overlap) while also being evidently contradictory.
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