laws have nothing to do with morality. laws protect the powerful and the at social institutions that made them powerful. the fact that private property laws exist means powerful people depend on private property to maintain power.
Morality is determined by society. Society has not agreed that being a landlord is immoral.
Very few people want to eliminate rentals altogether. You can go look at polls, even the polls where you find the most support for restrictions only want secondary rental homes to be taxed higher.
can you tell me what ethical system says morality determined by society? it’s been a few years since my philosophy degree, and it wasn’t specialized in ethics, but I seem to remember moral relativism as being universally appalling.
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.
laws have nothing to do with morality. laws protect the powerful and the at social institutions that made them powerful. the fact that private property laws exist means powerful people depend on private property to maintain power.
Morality is determined by society. Society has not agreed that being a landlord is immoral.
Very few people want to eliminate rentals altogether. You can go look at polls, even the polls where you find the most support for restrictions only want secondary rental homes to be taxed higher.
can you tell me what ethical system says morality determined by society? it’s been a few years since my philosophy degree, and it wasn’t specialized in ethics, but I seem to remember moral relativism as being universally appalling.
“universally appalling” despite it literally having supporters arguing over it for over a thousand years…
Just because your class of idealist youth didn’t like it doesn’t make it universally appalling.
this isn’t an answer
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.