• RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    So murder is fine

    What’s fine mean? You’re just using it as a standin for “good” or “acceptable” which again, has no meaning without a subject. Fine for what? Good or acceptable for who?

    most of the world doesn’t agree murder is morally wrong

    What?

    Your slavery example doesn’t work because slavery was and is always immoral

    Then why, for hundreds of years, was it considered so moral in America that it took an entire war to change it? Because most people individually all just happened to lack this obvious, natural morality? Or is it because ideas of morality are made up, arise from material conditions, and are systemically reproduced in a society? That they were able to create a system of moral justifications that excused them in their own minds for supporting slavery, just like liberals today have a system of moral justifications that excuse them in their own minds for supporting the Gaza genocide?

    You seem to think that “right and wrong” exist in some pure elemental form somewhere out in the universe, the way carbon and potassium do, some baseline that human actions can be measured against. They don’t. Right and wrong are figments of the human imagination, and only by accepting them for the shadows that they are can we stop chasing them in circles and finally begin to think in useful, concrete, scientific terms.

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      Morals are weightless and made up homie

      They’re not weightless, made up stuff, opinion sure, weightless not so much hence prison and societal normatives we wouldn’t imprison people for moral failings if they were weightless.

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        This is a tautology, this is the same argument as “God is real because we live under religious law.”

        Like…yeah man, who would ever make up an arcane system of magic unproveable rules about what’s Simply Good and Simply Bad and then use that to make laws that help them control people?

        wouldn’t imprison people for moral failings if they were weightless.

        We do not do this, all of Epstein’s pedophile associates are still living as sadistic gods on the stolen wealth of nations.

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            Weight is a force.
            What did you think it was, and what did you think it was measured in?

            Also, ironic to complain about social sciences not being sciences while also failing at basic physics.

            Also, you are mixing up measures and units of measurement.

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              Pretending to be an arbiter of what is and isn’t science and not knowing weight is a force measured in Newton’s and mass is measured in grams is pretty funny. If they were doing a bit it would be gold. (If only)(One can dream).