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minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYes. Yes it does. The bounds of what society considers acceptable or reprehensible changes with time, location, and culture.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 months agoSo if morality is subjective, then who are we to judge the holocaust? It was acceptable in that time, location and culture.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoOooh, nice, we’ve gone straight from a holier-than-thou categorical rejection of the concept of moral relativism to an attempt to use a straw man fallacy involving the Holocaust to categorically settle the entire scope of a topic that has been debated by philosophers smarter than either you or I for literal millennia.
Yes. Yes it does. The bounds of what society considers acceptable or reprehensible changes with time, location, and culture.
So if morality is subjective, then who are we to judge the holocaust? It was acceptable in that time, location and culture.
Oooh, nice, we’ve gone straight from a holier-than-thou categorical rejection of the concept of moral relativism to an attempt to use a straw man fallacy involving the Holocaust to categorically settle the entire scope of a topic that has been debated by philosophers smarter than either you or I for literal millennia.