artifactsofchina@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 天前If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?message-squaremessage-square142fedilinkarrow-up1135arrow-down110
arrow-up1125arrow-down1message-squareIf you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?artifactsofchina@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 天前message-square142fedilink
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 天前Your question didn’t require an answer, since it answered itself.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 天前so you’re saying it’s just straight up moral relativism, a theory of ethics that doesn’t actually allow any questioning of morality, like divine command theory.
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 天前That’s only one variation of moral relativism. It is, as most things in ethics are, not black and white.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 天前your version is no more defensible than divine command theory, and it’s totally useless for debating what we ought to think is moral.
minus-squareBlameThePeacock@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 天前I already stated what I believe to be moral in this situation, and how I arrived at that conclusion.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 天前…with all the authority of a Bible thumper.
Your question didn’t require an answer, since it answered itself.
so you’re saying it’s just straight up moral relativism, a theory of ethics that doesn’t actually allow any questioning of morality, like divine command theory.
That’s only one variation of moral relativism. It is, as most things in ethics are, not black and white.
your version is no more defensible than divine command theory, and it’s totally useless for debating what we ought to think is moral.
I already stated what I believe to be moral in this situation, and how I arrived at that conclusion.
…with all the authority of a Bible thumper.