How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.
– Walter E. Williams
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“: How Does Something Immoral, when Done Privately, Become Moral when It is Done Collectively? – http://t.co/A4frWMpXdB“
“: How Does Something Immoral, when Done Privately, Become Moral when It is Done Collectively? – http://t.co/w7MZvfwtFM”
sometimes I see a tweet like that and I think, you really don’t know what humor is… Then I start laughing
It doesn’t.
That’s the circular logic you have to battle if you hold to moral relativism.
Amoral always justifies its behavior.
How does something get declared moral or immoral without being defined collectively? Catch 22.
In America, it is either The Supreme Court, or the Republican Party.
read “On Killing” (Grossman) about the psychology of atrocity. There is a NEED for the group to spread the horror around.
or vice versa.
Because something something SOCIAL CONTRACT! something something.
and vice versa.
Part of the lie of popularity is how sin becomes permissible and even heinous behavior approved.
The magic equation… add money. Makes everything under the sun palletable to many.
why is it ok for a mob to stop traffic and get police protection with a street march but not an individual
Answer: It doesn’t. People are just content with lying to themselves.
“what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.”
Very true